Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants · Minnesota

Hylife foods

Name: Hylife foods Workplace Safety Data
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Windom, MN · ~914 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

Hylife foods runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Hylife foods: 6.4 TCR = 194% of Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hylife foods safety composite

Hylife foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 7%), 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).

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 6.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 7% 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

−3.3

2020→2021

Hylife foods injury rate improved

Hylife foods's TCR fell 3.3 from 8.1 in 2020 to 4.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.1 · 2021=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Windom, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 194% of ind

DART 3.4 DART
RANK #5/7
PHOTO US 212 Beef Corporat…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 80 inj
SIZE ~914 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US 212 Beef Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.4
US 212 Beef Co

6.4
Bob Evans Food

6.4
Smithfield Foo

6.3
Zweigle's

6.3

What this shows Hylife foods averages 6.4 TCR (194% of the Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

Hylife foods TCR series: 2020=8.1 · 2021=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Hylife foods falls in its industry

212 Pork carcasses, half carcasses establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Pork carcasses, half carcasses employers in Minnesota.

Hylife foods (914 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Hylife foods has more employees than the Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and prim median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2021	4.8	3.4	37	6	1
2020	8.1	7.4	43	23	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · MN · Windom

212 Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 38 employers in Windom, MN · 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	US 212 Beef Corporation	BUFFALO LAKE, MN	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bob Evans Foods, Xenia	XENIA, OH	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Smithfield Foods, Inc	MONMOUTH, IL	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Zweigle's	ROCHESTER, NY	6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	MTS Systems	EDEN PRAIRIE	914 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2573-MN103	EDEN PRAIRIE	914 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MP NEXLEVEL, LLC	MAPLE LAKE	915 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - MSP9	BROOKLYN PARK	915 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Windom	Windom	566 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Toro Main Plant	Windom	499 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Windom Area Schools	Windom	204 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fortune Transportation	Windom	187 FTE
NAT-TCR	Poe Asphalt Paving, Inc.	Clarkston, WA	6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Construction Office	Liberty Hill, TX	6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cedar	Newington, CT	6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Edsal Manufacturing Company Inc.	Gary, IN	6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Harrah's Cherokee Valley River Casino and Hotel	Murphy, NC	914 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lakes Region General Hospital	Laconia, NH	914 FTE
NAT-SIZE	BFPE International, Inc.	Hanover, MD	914 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Maricopa Ambulance	Phoenix, AZ	914 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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