Meats, packaged frozen, merchant wholesalers · Montana

Lower Valley Processing, Inc.

Kalispell, MT · ~21 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lower Valley Processing, Inc. runs at 345% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meats, packaged frozen, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Lower Valley Processing, Inc.: 7.6 TCR = 345% of Meats, packaged frozen, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lower Valley Processing, Inc. safety composite

Lower Valley Processing, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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

Lower Valley Processing, Inc.: 4.1 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Lower Valley Processing, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.9 from 4.1 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424420 · Kalispell, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 345% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P49
  • PHOTO MI-GAYLO02-Gaylord -…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MI-GAYLO02-Gaylord - MI - Trans (0.2 TCR gap)

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Lower Valley Processing, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lower Valley Processing, Inc. averages 7.6 TCR (345% of the Meats, packaged frozen, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Lower Valley Processing, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=11.5 · 2018=11 · 2019=11.1 · 2020=4.9 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=5 · BLS 2.2

Where Lower Valley Processing, Inc. falls in its industry

134 Meats, packaged frozen, mercha establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Lower Valley Processing, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lower Valley Processing, Inc.
Lower Valley Processing, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4

Lower Valley Processing, Inc. has fewer employees than the Meats, packaged frozen, merchant wholesa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.4. 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
2023 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2020 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 11.1 5.5 2 0 0
2018 11.0 5.5 2 0 0
2017 11.5 5.8 2 0 0
2016 4.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424420 · MT · Kalispell

134 Meats, packaged frozen, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 117 employers in Kalispell, MT · 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 MI-GAYLO02-Gaylord - MI - Trans 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NATIONAL CUSTOM PACKING 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden State Foods / Phoenix 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IL-AUROR02-Aurora - IL - Trans 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beaverhead Ranch, MT 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE SCC Inspections 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koprivica Buidling 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cut Bank 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kalispell Regional Medical Center 2,715 FTE
CITY-NEAR Logan Health Medical Center (formerly Kalispell Regional Medical Center) 2,601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Logan Health (formerly Kalispell Regional Healthcare-System) 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR MTK01, Applied Materials, Semi Tool Main 406 FTE
NAT-TCR IQHC Mankato MN 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Norwesco - Lancaster 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Miami Fl (Medley) 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Providence Home Care Waco 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE EMRManufacturing 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1012 47 Liberty Drive - Admin 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willamette Pass Resort 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yandle'S Splash Time Pools, Inc 21 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.