Beef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants · Pennsylvania

Nicholas Meats

Loganton, PA · ~402 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nicholas Meats runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Nicholas Meats: 5.3 TCR = 160% of Beef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nicholas Meats safety composite

Nicholas Meats scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

−9.8

2022→2024

Nicholas Meats injury rate improved

Nicholas Meats's TCR fell 9.8 from 9.8 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.8 · 2023=6.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Loganton, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 160% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/16
  • PHOTO Sioux Center Harvest…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 81 inj
  • SIZE ~402 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sioux Center Harvest Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nicholas Meats in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nicholas Meats averages 5.3 TCR (160% of the Beef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Nicholas Meats TCR series: 2022=9.8 · 2023=6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Nicholas Meats falls in its industry

212 Beef carcasses, half carcasses establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 16 Beef carcasses, half carcasses employers in Pennsylvania.

Nicholas Meats (402 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nicholas Meats
Nicholas Meats (402 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Nicholas Meats has more employees than the Beef carcasses, half carcasses, primal a median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 0.0 0.0 11 2 0
2023 6.0 4.3 29 0 0
2022 9.8 7.1 41 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · PA · Loganton

212 Beef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 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 Sioux Center Harvest Plant 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBS Plainwell INC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primary Beef-Fresno CA 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield Denison 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shop Vac Corporation 402 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2445 402 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3838 402 FTE
STATE-SIZE Comprehensive Logistics. Inc. 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nicholas Meat, LLC 292 FTE
NAT-TCR Farm and Fleet of Urbana 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SOMACIS Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Police 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR J & J Snack Foods Corp 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE August Winter & Sons, Inc 402 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boyd Bros Transportation 402 FTE
NAT-SIZE DOC Maintenance Inc. 402 FTE
NAT-SIZE GES Las Vegas 402 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.

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

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