Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers · California

Newport Meat

Irvine, CA · ~189 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newport Meat runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Newport Meat: 4.7 TCR = 215% of Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newport Meat safety composite

Newport Meat scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Newport Meat held a steady TCR band

Newport Meat's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.6 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.6 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Irvine, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 215% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #10/22
  • PHOTO Butts Foods - Birmin…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Butts Foods - Birmingham (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newport Meat in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newport Meat averages 4.7 TCR (215% of the Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Newport Meat TCR series: 2018=4.6 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Newport Meat falls in its industry

162 Cutting of purchased carcasses establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 22 Cutting of purchased carcasses employers in California.

Newport Meat (189 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Newport Meat
Newport Meat (189 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Newport Meat has more employees than the Cutting of purchased carcasses (except b median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 4.3 3.4 9 0 0
2022 5.3 4.7 9 0 0
2018 4.6 4.6 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · CA · Irvine

162 Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, CA · 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 Butts Foods - Birmingham 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Double D Meat Company, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denver Processing 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AVA Pork Products 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fallbrook 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Youngstown Grape Dist., Inc 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moonlight Companies Plant 4/MCSI 4 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sentinel Peak Resources 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine 16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-10 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Lifesciences 4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR Tennessee Tractor LLC - Dyersburg 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Behlen Mfg. Co. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ace Electric Inc 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Avon Cabinet Corporation 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE GA - Google Skyview 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parallel 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iroquois Nursing Home Inc 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Covenant Homecare 189 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.