Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants · Montana

Pioneer Meats, Inc.

Big Timber, MT · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pioneer Meats, Inc. runs at 361% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Pioneer Meats, Inc.: 11.9 TCR = 361% of Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pioneer Meats, Inc. safety composite

Pioneer Meats, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% 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

−1.6

2017→2020

Pioneer Meats, Inc. injury rate improved

Pioneer Meats, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.6 from 10.1 in 2017 to 8.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 17.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.1 · 2019=17.1 · 2020=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Big Timber, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 361% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO Waterloo Pork Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waterloo Pork Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Pioneer Meats, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pioneer Meats, Inc. averages 11.9 TCR (361% of the Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Pioneer Meats, Inc. TCR series: 2017=10.1 · 2019=17.1 · 2020=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Pioneer Meats, Inc. falls in its industry

212 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Pioneer Meats, Inc. (24 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 Pioneer Meats, Inc.
Pioneer Meats, Inc. (24 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Pioneer Meats, Inc. has fewer employees than the Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except p 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
2020 8.6 0.0 2 0 0
2019 17.1 0.0 3 0 0
2017 10.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · MT · Big Timber

212 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 4 employers in Big Timber, 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 Waterloo Pork Plant 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Valley Meat Company 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keokuk Hills Beef Company LLC 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marcho Farms, Inc. 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Garden City Harvest 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE GNW INC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Energy West Montana-Main Office 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hardy Construction Co. 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pionneer Medical Center 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pioneer Medical Center 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR 30618 STORE 30618 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Thomas R Moran Construction Company 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ford's Redi mix Concrete 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bath Manor Limited Partnership 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Southfield Hospice 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vance Metal Products, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Range Cornice & Roofing Co Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Western Plus 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bonitz Flooring Knoxville 24 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: 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.