Academies, college or university · Minnesota

Hormel Institute

Austin, MN · ~110 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hormel Institute runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade C.

Hormel Institute: 1.4 TCR = 102% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hormel Institute safety composite

Hormel Institute scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−2.4

2018→2024

Hormel Institute injury rate improved

Hormel Institute's TCR fell 2.4 from 3.1 in 2018 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.1 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Austin, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/47
  • PHOTO NYU Grossman School …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NYU Grossman School of Medicine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hormel Institute in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hormel Institute averages 1.4 TCR (102% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

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

Hormel Institute TCR series: 2018=3.1 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Hormel Institute falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 47 Academies, college or universi employers in Minnesota.

Hormel Institute (110 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 Institute
Hormel Institute (110 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Hormel Institute has fewer employees than the Academies, college or university median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.1 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · MN · Austin

347 Academies, college or university 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 NYU Grossman School of Medicine 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universidad Ana G. Mendez - Cabo Rojo 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centra College of Nursing 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Mexico State University 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minneapolis SE Storage 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shaw-Lundquist Associates Inc. 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Energy Solar - MN 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods - Austin 1,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods - Austin Plant 1,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods Corporation 1,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Pork Processors Inc. 1,208 FTE
NAT-TCR Precision Jig and Fixture Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Charleston SC IW Plant 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Welding Ceramics, LLC. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pulice Construction, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dillard Store Services, Inc. 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Nason Company 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office Naperville 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redlands 110 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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