Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

Trig's Smokehouse

Rhinelander, WI · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
31.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trig's Smokehouse runs at 1451% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Trig's Smokehouse: 31.9 TCR = 1451% of Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trig's Smokehouse safety composite

Trig's Smokehouse scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 31.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

TCR Δ

−17.9

2016→2017

Trig's Smokehouse injury rate improved

Trig's Smokehouse's TCR fell 17.9 from 40.9 in 2016 to 23.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 40.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=40.9 · 2017=23.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Rhinelander, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 31.9 · 1451% of ind

  • DART 13.8 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Hamilton Meats & Pro…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hamilton Meats & Provisions Chula Vista (4.4 TCR gap)

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Trig's Smokehouse in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trig's Smokehouse averages 31.9 TCR (1451% of the Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Trig's Smokehouse TCR series: 2016=40.9 · 2017=23 · BLS 2.2

Where Trig's Smokehouse falls in its industry

162 Meats and meat products (excep establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Meats and meat products (excep employers in Wisconsin.

Trig's Smokehouse (32 employees, TCR 31.9) 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Trig's Smokehouse
Trig's Smokehouse (32 employees, TCR 31.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Trig's Smokehouse has fewer employees than the Meats and meat products (except canned, 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
2017 23.0 13.8 5 0 0
2016 40.9 8.2 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · WI · Rhinelander

162 Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 52 employers in Rhinelander, WI · 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 Hamilton Meats & Provisions Chula Vista 27.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marquez Brothers International, Inc. - Montebello 22.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bonneville Meats 21.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ada Valley Meat Company Inc. 20.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eau Claire Insulation LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Powell Construction, Inc. 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4795-EA-MSN-MADISON-EAGLE ACS 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3430 Spirit Way 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Rhinelander Hospital 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4538-9301 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rhinelander Mill 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-WIAPP006 448 FTE
NAT-TCR Rockland Facility 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 048 Juvenile Detention Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR EWR - Ground Ops 30.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Contour Construction 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spring hill Farm Dairy Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rai Mx Ord 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0052 - Everett, Wa 32 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: 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.