Processed meats manufacturing · South Dakota

Link Snacks Inc.

Alpena, SD · ~1,059 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Link Snacks Inc. runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Link Snacks Inc.: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Link Snacks Inc. safety composite

Link Snacks Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2022→2024

Link Snacks Inc. injury rate improved

Link Snacks Inc.'s TCR fell 0.4 from 0.7 in 2022 to 0.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.7 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK P99
  • PHOTO Klement's Sausage Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~1,059 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Juneau Corporate Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Link Snacks Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Link Snacks Inc. averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Link Snacks Inc. TCR series: 2022=0.7 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=0.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Link Snacks Inc. falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Link Snacks Inc. (1,059 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Link Snacks Inc.
Link Snacks Inc. (1,059 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Link Snacks Inc. has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing 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
2024 0.2 0.2 2 0 0
2023 0.3 0.3 3 0 0
2022 0.7 0.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · SD · Alpena

613 Processed meats manufacturing 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 Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Juneau Corporate Office 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Land O' Frost Munster 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Advantage 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Double R Brand Foods, LLC. 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. 1,021 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookings 1,154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - FSD1 1,170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakota Provisions 902 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jack Links Alpena Plant 778 FTE
NAT-TCR Kinley Construction Group 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR D.R. Horton, Inc. - Birmingham 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Thales Defense & Security, Inc.-Clarksburg 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Radienz Living 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE RWJ University Hospital at Hamilton 1,059 FTE
NAT-SIZE JH Kelly, LLC. 1,059 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DET1 1,058 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barron Plant 1,060 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.