Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing · Minnesota

Pilgrims Plant

Cold Spring, MN · ~1,377 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Pilgrims Plant runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing workplace, earning a grade D.

Pilgrims Plant: 5.1 TCR = 155% of Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pilgrims Plant safety composite

Pilgrims Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−2.9

2021→2024

Pilgrims Plant injury rate improved

Pilgrims Plant's TCR fell 2.9 from 6.8 in 2021 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.8 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Cold Spring, MN ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #13/16
  • PHOTO Steam Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 123 inj
  • SIZE ~1,377 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steam Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Minnesota employers → · Look up another →

Pilgrims Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pilgrims Plant averages 5.1 TCR (155% of the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Pilgrims Plant TCR series: 2021=6.8 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Pilgrims Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 16 Poultry slaughtering, dressing employers in Minnesota.

Pilgrims Plant (1,377 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Pilgrims Plant
Pilgrims Plant (1,377 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Pilgrims Plant has more employees than the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and pack median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 3.9 1.3 35 31 0
2023 4.7 2.5 46 17 0
2021 6.8 3.5 42 32 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MN · Cold Spring

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 15 employers in Cold Spring, MN · 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 Steam Plant 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1243 - Plant - Live Oak, FL 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ambassador Sanitation Management @ Pilgrim's Pride Elberton 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primary Poultry - California MO Plant 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Land O'Lakes, Inc. 1,379 FTE
STATE-SIZE IT Capital Complex 1,374 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2573-MN006 1,386 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fortra, LLC 1,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR PILGRIMS COLD SPRING - JFC- LLC 677 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cold Spring Granite Company 651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cold Spring Brewing Company 577 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISD 750 Rocori Middle & High Schools 188 FTE
NAT-TCR HME 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR BiOrigin Specialty Products 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mowil - Willow Springs 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 070 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE United Church Homes, Inc. 1,377 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thibodaux Regional Health System 1,377 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ewing Irrigation Products, Inc. 1,377 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solo Cup Company Chicago 1,377 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, 2021. 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.