Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses · Washington

Vanguard Foods

Auburn, WA · ~13 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vanguard Foods runs at 273% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Vanguard Foods: 9.0 TCR = 273% of Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vanguard Foods safety composite

Vanguard Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Vanguard Foods: 11.6 → 12.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

Vanguard Foods's TCR rose 0.6 from 11.6 in 2019 to 12.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Auburn, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 273% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Leonard Facility
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Leonard Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vanguard Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vanguard Foods averages 9.0 TCR (273% of the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Vanguard Foods TCR series: 2019=11.6 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=10.8 · 2022=0 · 2024=12.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Vanguard Foods falls in its industry

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f employers in Washington.

Vanguard Foods (13 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Vanguard Foods
Vanguard Foods (13 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Vanguard Foods has fewer employees than the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purcha median and a higher 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 12.2 8.1 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 10.8 10.8 1 0 0
2020 10.4 10.4 1 0 0
2019 11.6 11.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · WA · Auburn

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 166 employers in Auburn, WA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Leonard Facility 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northland GBD 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cloverdale Foods 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Al John Inc 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kent Plant 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE WASHINGTON 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ryerson spokane -1015 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ryerson Spokane 13 FTE
CITY-NEAR WA001 4,392 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zones, LLC 1,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muckleshoot Casino 1,616 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muckleshoot Indian Tribe 1,367 FTE
NAT-TCR Cinnaminson NJ FXFE-CIN 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewis Builders Development 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Schnippel Construction, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Utap Delivery Inc 9.0 TCR

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, 2022, 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.