Fresh meats merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Slagel Family Meats

Forrest, IL · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Slagel Family Meats runs at 398% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh meats merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Slagel Family Meats: 8.8 TCR = 398% of Fresh meats merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Slagel Family Meats safety composite

Slagel Family Meats scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

Slagel Family Meats: 8.1 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2024

Slagel Family Meats's TCR rose 1.2 from 8.1 in 2023 to 9.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Forrest, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 398% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO Poultry Products Of NE
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Poultry Products Of NE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Slagel Family Meats in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Slagel Family Meats averages 8.8 TCR (398% of the Fresh meats merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Slagel Family Meats TCR series: 2023=8.1 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Slagel Family Meats falls in its industry

162 Fresh meats merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 Fresh meats merchant wholesale employers in Illinois.

Slagel Family Meats (47 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Slagel Family Meats
Slagel Family Meats (47 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Slagel Family Meats has fewer employees than the Fresh meats merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 9.4 2.3 4 0 0
2023 8.1 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · IL · Forrest

162 Fresh meats merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 6 employers in Forrest, IL · 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 Poultry Products Of NE 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newport Meat of Nevada 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moesle Meat Distribution Co. 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bert Hazekamp & Son 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1987-Jerseyville, IL (Monsanto Co.) 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-Mfg 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Power, Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Decatur 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Selig Sealing Products, Inc. 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Slagel Manufacturing 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zutat Feed Solutions, LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zimmerman Feed & Grain, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Apple Roofing Corp. 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalama Export 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Luke's East Hospital 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Powers Generator Service, LLC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evercompounds LLC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Park 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nicomatic LLC 47 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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