Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing · Arkansas

Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters)

Fort Smith, AR · ~269 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters) runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters): 1.4 TCR = 33% of Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters) safety composite

Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−1.2

2021→2024

Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters) injury rate improved

Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters)'s TCR fell 1.2 from 2.0 in 2021 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311911 · Fort Smith, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Meijer Roasting and …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~269 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meijer Roasting and Packaging Facility 816 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters) averages 1.4 TCR (33% of the Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters) TCR series: 2021=2 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters) falls in its industry

150 Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, employers in Arkansas.

Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters) (269 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters)
Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters) (269 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Hormel Foods Operations , LLC. (planters) has more employees than the Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 0.8 0.3 3 0 0
2023 1.2 0.9 4 0 0
2022 1.4 0.6 5 0 0
2021 2.0 1.7 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311911 · AR · Fort Smith

150 Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 249 employers in Fort Smith, AR · 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 Meijer Roasting and Packaging Facility 816 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sylvester Plant 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Planters - Fort Smith 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Planters Peanut 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Butterball LLC 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arkansas Steel Associates, LLC 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE 348 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE VCC Construction 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL FORT SMITH 1,944 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABB Motors and Mechanical, Inc. - Fort Smith 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Smith - 5713 RS Boreham Jr Street 985 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith 970 FTE
NAT-TCR Baltimore MD Yard 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden Grove 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Staybridge Suites Carmel 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Harriet Upper 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Greenville Plant (DGV) 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAM Rehab Richardson 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DCL4 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Navarre 269 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, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.