Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses · Minnesota

Hormel Foods - Austin Plant

Austin, MN · ~1,884 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hormel Foods - Austin Plant runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade B.

Hormel Foods - Austin Plant: 2.3 TCR = 71% of Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hormel Foods - Austin Plant safety composite

Hormel Foods - Austin Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Hormel Foods - Austin Plant held a steady TCR band

Hormel Foods - Austin Plant's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.5 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.5 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Austin, MN AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 71% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #4/19
  • PHOTO Land O'Frost Lansing
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 123 inj
  • SIZE ~1,884 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Land O'Frost Lansing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hormel Foods - Austin Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Hormel Foods - Austin Plant averages 2.3 TCR (71% of the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Hormel Foods - Austin Plant TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Hormel Foods - Austin Plant falls in its industry

613 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 19 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce employers in Minnesota.

Hormel Foods - Austin Plant (1,884 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hormel Foods - Austin Plant
Hormel Foods - Austin Plant (1,884 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hormel Foods - Austin Plant has more employees than the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 2.8 2.0 56 0 0
2019 1.8 1.5 35 0 0
2017 2.5 1.9 32 15 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MN · Austin

613 Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Austin, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Land O'Frost Lansing 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Viscofan USA Inc 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eddy Packing Co. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnsonville - Meadowside Plant 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Building D-Miller Dwan Medical Center 1,880 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rosemount Aerospace Inc (Burnsville MN) 1,894 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2573-MN008 1,873 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROSEMOUNT AEROSPACE INC_6830 1,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods - Austin 1,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods Corporation 1,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Pork Processors Inc. 1,208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Austin 930 FTE
NAT-TCR Indian Springs Sch Dist 109 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CDE - Metro Nashville District Energy System 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Solo Cup Company Ada 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Co 820 Maines Food & Party Warehouse 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oakhaven Package Distribution Center (Tnoak) 1,883 FTE
NAT-SIZE HCA Florida Kendall Hospital 1,883 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baptist Health System Jacksonville Baptist Health System Inc 1,883 FTE
NAT-SIZE FirstFruits Farms 1,885 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.