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
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).
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
- This site
Hormel Foods - Austin Plant
2.3 TCR
- Land O'Frost L
Land O'Frost Lansing
2.3 TCR
- Viscofan USA I
Viscofan USA Inc
2.3 TCR
- Eddy Packing C
Eddy Packing Co.
2.3 TCR
- Johnsonville -
Johnsonville - Meadowside Plant
2.3 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).
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 establishmentsSafer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.
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 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 →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.