Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses · Wisconsin

Hormel Foods Corporation

Name: Hormel Foods Corporation Workplace Safety Data
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Beloit, WI · ~350 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Hormel Foods Corporation runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade C.

Hormel Foods Corporation: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hormel Foods Corporation safety composite

Hormel Foods Corporation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% 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).

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2016→2019

Hormel Foods Corporation injury rate improved

Hormel Foods Corporation's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.4 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.4 · 2017=2.8 · 2019=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Beloit, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

DART 0.5 DART
RANK #19/52
PHOTO Junction City Packag…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 34 inj
SIZE ~350 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Junction City Packaging (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Hormel Foods Corporation averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

Hormel Foods Corporation TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=2.8 · 2019=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Hormel Foods Corporation falls in its industry

613 Meat products canning (except establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 52 Meat products canning (except employers in Wisconsin.

Hormel Foods Corporation (350 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hormel Foods Corporation has more employees than the Meat products canning (except baby, pet 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
2019	2.4	0.5	10
2017	2.8	0.8	11
2016	3.4	0.8	13

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · WI · Beloit

613 Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 110 employers in Beloit, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Junction City Packaging	JUNCTION CITY, KS	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Smithfield	SMITHFIELD, VA	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	OSI Group, LLC Rose Packing	CHICAGO, IL	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dole and Bailey	WOBURN, MA	2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Baraboo Blow and Injection Molding	BARABOO	350 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Master Lock Milwaukee Operations	MILWAUKEE	350 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 3247	DELAVAN	350 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Richland Hospital	RICHLAND CENTER	350 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - JVL1	Beloit	1,309 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Beloit Health System	Beloit	1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kerry Ingredients	Beloit	944 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kerry Beloit	Beloit	938 FTE
NAT-TCR	Upper Marlboro Distribution Center	Upper Marlboro, MD	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Powell	St. Louis, MI	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Parker Service Center - Hiawatha	Hiawatha, IA	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	All States Asphalt Sunderland	Sunderland, MA	2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Alatrade-Boaz	Boaz, AL	350 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Reinke Manufacturing Company, Inc. Deshler Location	Deshler, NE	350 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ND,FARGO - Southpointe Clinic Campus - Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists)	Fargo, ND	350 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hayden Operations	Hayden, AZ	350 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: 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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