Pork and beans canning · Indiana

Meridian Foods

Eaton, IN · ~36 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meridian Foods runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pork and beans canning workplace, earning a grade D.

Meridian Foods: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Pork and beans canning BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meridian Foods safety composite

Meridian Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−10.0

2016→2022

Meridian Foods injury rate improved

Meridian Foods's TCR fell 10.0 from 13.4 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.4 · 2017=14.8 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311422 · Eaton, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO The Suter Company, I…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Suter Company, Inc. (May) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Meridian Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meridian Foods averages 5.7 TCR (173% of the Pork and beans canning BLS benchmark).

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

Meridian Foods TCR series: 2016=13.4 · 2017=14.8 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Meridian Foods falls in its industry

67 Pork and beans canning establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Pork and beans canning employers in Indiana.

Meridian Foods (36 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Meridian Foods
Meridian Foods (36 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Meridian Foods has fewer employees than the Pork and beans canning median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2022 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2017 14.8 14.8 5 0 0
2016 13.4 6.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311422 · IN · Eaton

67 Pork and beans canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 4 employers in Eaton, IN · 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 The Suter Company, Inc. (May) 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills Hannibal 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Brands LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Soy Products 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Indy, Churchman Pack 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Natural Beauty Growers, LLC - Richmond IN 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hidden View Dairy, LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkhart Office and Service Building 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ox Paperboard Eaton LLC 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3340 Eaton Mill 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eaton Mill 68 FTE
NAT-TCR Straus Knitting Mills 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1123 - Sarasota Square Mall Fl Whse 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Wegmans Lyell Avenue 013 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Medical Foundation (185-490) 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Viking Fence Fort Worth 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niteo Products LLC Distribution Center 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big D's Oilfield Service, LLC 36 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.