Smoked meats made from purchased carcasses · South Dakota

Jack Links Alpena Plant

Alpena, SD · ~778 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jack Links Alpena Plant runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Smoked meats made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade A.

Jack Links Alpena Plant: 1.0 TCR = 31% of Smoked meats made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jack Links Alpena Plant safety composite

Jack Links Alpena Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Jack Links Alpena Plant: 0.6 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2017

Jack Links Alpena Plant's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.6 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Alpena, SD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 31% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK P96
  • PHOTO Smithfield Packaged …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~778 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jack Links Alpena Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jack Links Alpena Plant averages 1.0 TCR (31% of the Smoked meats made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Jack Links Alpena Plant TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2017=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Jack Links Alpena Plant falls in its industry

613 Smoked meats made from purchas establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Jack Links Alpena Plant (778 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Jack Links Alpena Plant
Jack Links Alpena Plant (778 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Jack Links Alpena Plant has more employees than the Smoked meats made from purchased carcass median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2017 1.5 1.0 13 0 0
2016 0.6 0.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · SD · Alpena

613 Smoked meats made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Alpena, SD · 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 Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Beef Case Ready Hummels Wharf 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harvin Choice Meats Inc 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Angus, LLC dba DemKota Ranch Beef 761 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avera St. Luke's Hospital 758 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aberdeen 716 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Hills Works 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR Link Snacks Inc. 1,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. 1,021 FTE
NAT-TCR North District Houston ENB3 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas/Coppell (Txcpp) 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Roberts Corrosion Services, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pse&G Nj - Customer Operations - (Billing & Rev Ops, Customer Contact, Lcs, Vp & Other Cust Ops) 778 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tracker Marine-Lebanon 778 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primm Valley 778 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amzl : Dat2 778 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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