Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses · Iowa

Hormel Foods

Knoxville, IA · ~207 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Hormel Foods runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade C.

Hormel Foods: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hormel Foods safety composite

Hormel Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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

−5.5

2021→2024

Hormel Foods injury rate improved

Hormel Foods's TCR fell 5.5 from 5.5 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.5 · 2022=3.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Knoxville, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/32
  • PHOTO US05 Mankato Links S…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~207 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US05 Mankato Links Snacks Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hormel Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hormel Foods averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Sausage and similar cased products 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 TCR series: 2021=5.5 · 2022=3.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Hormel Foods falls in its industry

613 Sausage and similar cased prod establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 32 Sausage and similar cased prod employers in Iowa.

Hormel Foods (207 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hormel Foods
Hormel Foods (207 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 has more employees than the Sausage and similar cased products made 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.2 2.3 6 1 0
2021 5.5 5.5 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IA · Knoxville

613 Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 18 employers in Knoxville, IA · 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 US05 Mankato Links Snacks Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckhead Meat San Antonio 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frank Millard & Co., Inc. 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Collins - Manchester 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Hope Campus 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marzetti Frozen Pasta - Altoona 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knoxville 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weiler, Inc. 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knoxville Hospital and Clinics 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marion County Iowa 201 FTE
NAT-TCR New Ulm Dental Clinic 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR James Dowling Construction 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Daytona Beach 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Napco, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Santa Monica Proper Hotel 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dave's Killer Bread 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amcor Rigid Plastics 207 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: 2024, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.