Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses · Minnesota

Rochester Meat Company

Name: Rochester Meat Company Workplace Safety Data
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Rochester, MN · ~240 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Rochester Meat Company runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade C.

Rochester Meat Company: 3.6 TCR = 111% of Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rochester Meat Company safety composite

Rochester Meat Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Rochester Meat Company: 4.3 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2023

Rochester Meat Company's TCR rose 0.5 from 4.3 in 2019 to 4.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 111% of ind

DART 4.8 DART
RANK #12/19
PHOTO Livingston Deli
BOOK 5y book
INJ 38 inj
SIZE ~240 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Livingston Deli (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Rochester Meat Company averages 3.6 TCR (111% of the Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

Rochester Meat Company TCR series: 2019=4.3 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Rochester Meat Company falls in its industry

613 Boxed meat produced from purch establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 19 Boxed meat produced from purch employers in Minnesota.

Rochester Meat Company (240 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Rochester Meat Company has more employees than the Boxed meat produced from purchased carca median and a lower 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
2023	4.8	4.8	9	2
2022	4.2	3.7	10	0
2021	2.4	2.0	6	0
2020	2.6	1.7	2	4
2019	4.3	3.1	11	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MN · Rochester

613 Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Livingston Deli	LIVINGSTON, CA	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	3 Little Pigs, LLC	WILKES-BARRE, PA	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Buckhead Meat and Seafood of Houston	HOUSTON, TX	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp	CINCINNATI, OH	3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	The Toro Company - Shakopee	SHAKOPEE	240 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SFM Mutual Insurance Company	BLOOMINGTON	240 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Minnesota Department of Transportation District 8	WILLMAR	240 FTE
STATE-SIZE	I. S. D. 484	PIERZ	240 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mayo Clinic Rochester	Rochester	38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Olmsted County	Rochester	1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC	Rochester	1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS	Rochester	823 FTE
NAT-TCR	Patrick Industries, Inc.	Tolleson, AZ	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	CAL025	Long Beach, CA	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	RMDS - Memphis	Memphis, TN	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sodexo at Hollywood Bowl Concessions	Los Angeles, CA	3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Fort Recovery Industries	Fort Recovery, OH	240 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Power Products - Menomonee Falls	Menomonee Falls, WI	240 FTE
NAT-SIZE	BNR South Jersey	Mount Laurel, NJ	240 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Phoenix Lithographing Corporation	Philadelphia, PA	240 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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