Smoked meats made from purchased carcasses · Wisconsin

Jack Links Minong Plant

Minong, WI · ~467 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jack Links Minong Plant runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Smoked meats made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

Jack Links Minong Plant: 5.3 TCR = 159% of Smoked meats made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jack Links Minong Plant safety composite

Jack Links Minong Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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 Minong Plant: 4.1 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2017

Jack Links Minong Plant's TCR rose 2.4 from 4.1 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Minong, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #31/52
  • PHOTO Emmaus Facility
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~467 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Emmaus Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jack Links Minong Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jack Links Minong Plant averages 5.3 TCR (159% 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 Minong Plant TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Jack Links Minong Plant falls in its industry

613 Smoked meats made from purchas establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 52 Smoked meats made from purchas employers in Wisconsin.

Jack Links Minong Plant (467 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Minong Plant
Jack Links Minong Plant (467 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Jack Links Minong Plant has more employees than the Smoked meats made from purchased carcass median and a higher 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 6.5 5.1 32 0 0
2016 4.1 3.4 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · WI · Minong

613 Smoked meats made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 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 Emmaus Facility 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Willamette Valley Meat Co. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rich Products Vineland 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Meat Authority 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Snyder's Lance Inc. 467 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Neenah Converting 466 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tomah 468 FTE
STATE-SIZE Falk 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR US03 Minong Link Snacks Inc. 429 FTE
NAT-TCR Anaheim (Caana) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Waverly Health Care and Rehabilitation 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CPS distributors, inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CPI USA NC LLC - Southport 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2073-EJ-20730180-FO 467 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wegmans Potomac Mills 055 467 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cummins Facility Services LLC 467 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenland Plant 467 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.