Pig farming · Nebraska

Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE

Leigh, NE · ~26 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pig farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE: 9.6 TCR = 214% of Pig farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE safety composite

Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 9.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE: 4.0 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 16.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2022

Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE's TCR rose 6.7 from 4.0 in 2016 to 10.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 16.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112210 · Leigh, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 214% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #24/42
  • PHOTO Northwood Sow Unit
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northwood Sow Unit (0.1 TCR gap)

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Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE averages 9.6 TCR (214% of the Pig farming BLS benchmark).

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

Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=16.8 · 2020=14.6 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=10.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE falls in its industry

280 Pig farming establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 42 Pig farming employers in Nebraska.

Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE (26 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7 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 0100200300400 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE
Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE (26 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7

Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE has more employees than the Pig farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.7. 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
2022 10.8 7.2 3 0 0
2021 8.1 4.0 2 0 0
2020 14.6 14.6 4 0 0
2019 16.8 16.8 5 0 0
2018 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2017 6.5 0.0 2 0 0
2016 4.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112210 · NE · Leigh

280 Pig farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 3 employers in Leigh, NE · 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 Northwood Sow Unit 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Livingston Enterprises Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilderness View 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ON 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Timber Ridge 12347 445th Street Leigh NE 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE PFF 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farners Pride - Battle Creek Location 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butler Public Power District 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schwartz Farms Site 2 NE 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Riverside Behavioral Health 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 020324-Anc-Lake Otis Sta 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 564988-Mad-Hilldale Sta 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Penn Station 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Silverstreak Dairy 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue River Services - Washington Center 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schwartz Farms Kaylor SD 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schwartz Farms Huiras MN 26 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.