Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing · Nebraska

Lincoln Premium Poultry

Fremont, NE · ~954 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lincoln Premium Poultry runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lincoln Premium Poultry: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lincoln Premium Poultry safety composite

Lincoln Premium Poultry scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 2% 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

−10.3

2019→2023

Lincoln Premium Poultry injury rate improved

Lincoln Premium Poultry's TCR fell 10.3 from 12.1 in 2019 to 1.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=12.1 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Fremont, NE ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO OKF Transportation
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 193 inj
  • SIZE ~954 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OKF Transportation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lincoln Premium Poultry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lincoln Premium Poultry averages 5.7 TCR (173% of the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Lincoln Premium Poultry TCR series: 2019=12.1 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Lincoln Premium Poultry falls in its industry

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Poultry slaughtering, dressing employers in Nebraska.

Lincoln Premium Poultry (954 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lincoln Premium Poultry
Lincoln Premium Poultry (954 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Lincoln Premium Poultry has more employees than the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and pack median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 1.8 1.3 19 1 0
2022 2.3 2.2 21 4 0
2021 4.2 2.4 48 5 0
2020 8.1 6.3 75 23 2
2019 12.1 9.9 30 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · NE · Fremont

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 78 employers in Fremont, 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 OKF Transportation 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ambassador Sanitation Management @ Pilgrim's Pride 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooper Farms Cooked Meats 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MB Food Processing, Inc 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CHI Health Saint Elizabeth 965 FTE
STATE-SIZE BD Pharmaceutical Systems 971 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airlite Plastics Co. 919 FTE
STATE-SIZE nebraska beef 992 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wholestone Farms Cooperative Inc 1,349 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wholestone Farms 1,225 FTE
CITY-NEAR 61830190 METHODIST FREMONT HEALTH 674 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6183-61830190 602 FTE
NAT-TCR Tupelo Dirt Cheap 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pine Grove Healthcare & Wellness Centre 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Napa 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR South Haven Nursing & Rehabilitation Community 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE DFW1 954 FTE
NAT-SIZE Department of Public Safety 954 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mundelein Office 954 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MGE3 954 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.