Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants · Minnesota
Hylife foods
Windom, MN · ~914 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 6.4
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 1
- Fatality
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.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 6.4
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 1
- worker fatalities on record
Grade compares Hylife foods's OSHA Total Case Rate of 6.4 to the Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark of 3.3 (194% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Hylife foods's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Hylife foods falls in its industry
216 Pork carcasses, half carcasses establishmentsSafer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.
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.
Trend analysis for Hylife foods
Between 2020 and 2021, Hylife foods's Total Case Rate improved from 8.1 to 4.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 41% decrease across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 4.8, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 8.1, a spread of 3.3 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 2 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, Hylife foods recorded 80 total injuries and illnesses and 1 fatality. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 80 injuries, 29 illnesses, and 1 fatality shown on this page for Hylife foods are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311611 - Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2021)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
31 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,806,172 hours worked = 3.43 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Hylife foods (this establishment) | 6.41 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Beef produced in slaughtering plants industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 311611 |
| Minnesota state avg (all industries) | 5.18 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Hylife foods to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2021: 44 reportable incidents · 37 injuries, 6 illnesses, 1 fatality - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 66 reportable incidents · 43 injuries, 23 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
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 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Hylife foods's reported OSHA injury record versus its Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 194% of the Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants benchmark, Hylife foods reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Hylife foods's safety grade?
How many injuries has Hylife foods reported?
Similar Employers
Matched by safety record across the industry, by workforce size within Minnesota, and by nearby establishments in Windom - a different peer set than the category browse links below.
Similar TCR (~6.4)
Similar size (~914 workers)
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.