Beef produced in slaughtering plants · California

Primary Beef-Fresno CA

Fresno, CA · ~910 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Primary Beef-Fresno CA runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beef produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Primary Beef-Fresno CA: 5.2 TCR = 159% of Beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Primary Beef-Fresno CA safety composite

Primary Beef-Fresno CA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Primary Beef-Fresno CA: 4.4 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2024

Primary Beef-Fresno CA's TCR rose 2.8 from 4.4 in 2017 to 7.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Fresno, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 159% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #6/14
  • PHOTO Smithfield Denison
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 182 inj
  • SIZE ~910 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield Denison (0.0 TCR gap)

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Primary Beef-Fresno CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Primary Beef-Fresno CA averages 5.2 TCR (159% of the Beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Primary Beef-Fresno CA TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Primary Beef-Fresno CA falls in its industry

212 Beef produced in slaughtering establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 14 Beef produced in slaughtering employers in California.

Primary Beef-Fresno CA (910 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Primary Beef-Fresno CA
Primary Beef-Fresno CA (910 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Primary Beef-Fresno CA has more employees than the Beef produced in slaughtering plants median and a lower 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 7.2 6.8 21 13 0
2023 6.8 6.4 32 34 0
2022 5.9 5.4 33 32 0
2021 5.4 5.0 26 27 0
2020 3.3 3.0 20 14 0
2019 3.7 3.5 23 16 0
2017 4.4 3.4 27 18 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · CA · Fresno

212 Beef produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 981 employers in Fresno, 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 Smithfield Denison 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sioux Center Harvest Plant 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBS Plainwell INC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primay Beef - Schuyler Location 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hobart 910 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plaid, Inc. 910 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shasta Regional Medical Center 910 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ono-009 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Fresno 7,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Force LLC 6,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Ctr 5,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Center 4,921 FTE
NAT-TCR Fowler & Hammer, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR OKAY Berlin 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Masters Gallery Foods, Inc - Plymouth 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE HomeNurse 910 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunt Construction Group 910 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 5 910 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chamberlain Group Inc 910 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, 2021, 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.