Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Nebraska

Imperial Beef

Imperial, NE · ~61 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Imperial Beef runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade C.

Imperial Beef: 4.8 TCR = 106% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Imperial Beef safety composite

Imperial Beef scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−6.3

2016→2024

Imperial Beef injury rate improved

Imperial Beef's TCR fell 6.3 from 7.7 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.7 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Imperial, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #7/18
  • PHOTO Barton County Feeders
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barton County Feeders (0.0 TCR gap)

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Imperial Beef in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Imperial Beef averages 4.8 TCR (106% of the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS benchmark).

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

Imperial Beef TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Imperial Beef falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 18 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Nebraska.

Imperial Beef (61 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Imperial Beef
Imperial Beef (61 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Imperial Beef has more employees than the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2023 3.4 3.4 3 0 0
2022 3.6 3.6 4 0 0
2021 3.8 3.8 4 0 0
2020 8.7 7.7 3 6 0
2019 3.1 1.0 3 0 0
2018 6.4 4.3 6 0 0
2017 4.8 3.6 4 0 0
2016 7.7 3.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · NE · Imperial

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 10 employers in Imperial, NE · 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 Barton County Feeders 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TEXAS BEEF PRODUCERS 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Eckley 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hale Center Feedyard 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE MSC Protein Production 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eriksen Construction Co., Inc. 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nebraska Public Power - Gerald Gentleman 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jack Links Bellevue Plant 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Imperial Manor 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frenchman Valley Produce, Inc. 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Imperial Grain 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Imperial Agronomy 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Jerseyville Manor 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Howard Transportation 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Republic Manufacturing 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pulaski County Egg Farm 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seven Seas Construction 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cannon Industries Inc 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0283 Prescott 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0088 Tucson 61 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.