Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses · South Dakota

US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc.

Alpena, SD · ~1,021 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade B.

US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc.: 1.6 TCR = 50% of Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. safety composite

US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. held a steady TCR band

US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 0.5 in 2019 to 0.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.5 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=0.6 · 2024=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Alpena, SD AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK P91
  • PHOTO 1
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~1,021 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. averages 1.6 TCR (50% of the Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. TCR series: 2019=0.5 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=0.6 · 2024=0.2 · BLS 3.3

Where US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. falls in its industry

613 Cured meats (e.g., brined, dri establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. (1,021 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc.
US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. (1,021 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. has more employees than the Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and sa 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 Fatalities
2024 0.2 0.2 2 0 0
2021 0.6 0.3 7 0 0
2020 5.3 5.3 6 43 0
2019 0.5 0.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · SD · Alpena

613 Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Alpena, SD · 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 1 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stock Yards Greensburg 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverside Plant 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monogram Food Solutions - Martinsville 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Link Snacks Inc. 1,059 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakota Provisions 902 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookings 1,154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - FSD1 1,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jack Links Alpena Plant 778 FTE
NAT-TCR US08 Underwood Link Snacks Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Division 8M & Div. 45 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR National Distribution & Contracting, Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NSK Corporation 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Conmed - Largo 1,021 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dart Container Corporate Offices 1,021 FTE
NAT-SIZE RPM xConstruction, LLC 1,021 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fourwinds Casino South Bend 1,021 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.