Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses · Minnesota

Pipestone Swift Pork Company

Pipestone, MN · ~127 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pipestone Swift Pork Company runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

Pipestone Swift Pork Company: 4.5 TCR = 136% of Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pipestone Swift Pork Company safety composite

Pipestone Swift Pork Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Pipestone Swift Pork Company: 0.0 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.84× in 2020

Pipestone Swift Pork Company's TCR rose 9.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 9.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Pipestone, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #15/19
  • PHOTO Smithfield - Cudahy …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield - Cudahy Packaged (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pipestone Swift Pork Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pipestone Swift Pork Company averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Pipestone Swift Pork Company TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=9 · BLS 3.3

Where Pipestone Swift Pork Company falls in its industry

613 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 19 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce employers in Minnesota.

Pipestone Swift Pork Company (127 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pipestone Swift Pork Company
Pipestone Swift Pork Company (127 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Pipestone Swift Pork Company has fewer employees than the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 9.0 8.3 9 3 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MN · Pipestone

613 Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 41 employers in Pipestone, 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 Smithfield - Cudahy Packaged 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSI Industries, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 814 Americas 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISC Inc dba Isernio Sausage Company 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE FERTILE BELTRAMI SCHOOL DISTRICT 599 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brin Glass Service / Contract 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE PETERSON SHEET METAL INC 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sonus Interiors 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS Swift Pork Company Pipestone 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCMC 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Middle School / High School 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR NG - PIPESTONE TRUSS 83 FTE
NAT-TCR Courtyard by Marriott Anaheim Resort Convention Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American Excelsior Corporate Office 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Luxfer MEL Technologies 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Prism Hospitality, LP - Hilton Tucson - El Conquistador 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quality Manpower 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services) 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE 35-Usf-S&H Worldgate 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Park Lane Nursing Home 127 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.