Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants · Iowa
Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms
Des Moines, IA · ~785 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- A
- Excellent Safety Record
- 1.2
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade A.
Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms: 1.2 TCR = 37% of Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms safety composite
Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 55%), 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).
84/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- A 1.21 per 100 workers
Safer than 95% of industry peers
- DART rate
- A 0.32 per 100 workers
Safer than 93% of industry peers
- Fatalities
- C 0
Safer than 55% 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
−1.0
2022→2024
Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms injury rate improved
Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms's TCR fell 1.0 from 1.6 in 2022 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
2022=1.6 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=0.7
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 311611 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID
Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 37% of ind
- DART 0.3 DART
- RANK #2/26
- PHOTO JBS
- BOOK 3y book
- INJ 29 inj
- SIZE ~785 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: JBS (0.0 TCR gap)
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Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- Smithfield Fre
Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp.
1.3 TCR
- This site
Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms
1.2 TCR
- JBS
JBS
1.2 TCR
- MEAT PROCESSIN
MEAT PROCESSING
1.2 TCR
- Ottumwa Bacon
Ottumwa Bacon Swift Pork Company
1.1 TCR
What this shows Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms averages 1.2 TCR (37% of the Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).
Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms TCR series: 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 3.3
Where Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms falls in its industry
212 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen establishmentsSafer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.
Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 26 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen employers in Iowa.
Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms has more employees than the Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except p median and a lower 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 12 | 3 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
311611 · IA · Des Moines
212 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, IA · 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 | JBS | 1.2 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | MEAT PROCESSING | 1.2 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. | 1.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Ottumwa Bacon Swift Pork Company | 1.1 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co | 786 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | ISG Urbandale | 786 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Ottumwa Works | 789 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center | 790 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Corporate Center | 6,292 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines | 4,884 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | MercyOne Des Moines | 3,547 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Des Moines Methodist Hospital | 3,495 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Ned Stevens Gutter Cleaning & General Contracting of GA, LLC | 1.2 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Decatur Stratas Foods | 1.2 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Fallbrook | 1.2 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | 3005 Diamond Lake | 1.2 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | FL-Bradenton | 785 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | 058 Lci | 785 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Amazon.com Services LLC - CLE5 | 785 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Timec Services Company, Inc. | 785 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.