Pig farming · Minnesota

Wakefield Pork, Inc.

Gaylord, MN · ~189 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wakefield Pork, Inc. runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pig farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Wakefield Pork, Inc.: 6.8 TCR = 152% of Pig farming BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wakefield Pork, Inc. safety composite

Wakefield Pork, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−3.0

2016→2021

Wakefield Pork, Inc. injury rate improved

Wakefield Pork, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.0 from 9.7 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.7 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=4.0 · 2021=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112210 · Gaylord, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 152% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #12/27
  • PHOTO Sietsema Farms Feeds
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sietsema Farms Feeds (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wakefield Pork, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wakefield Pork, Inc. averages 6.8 TCR (152% of the Pig farming BLS benchmark).

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

Wakefield Pork, Inc. TCR series: 2016=9.7 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=4 · 2021=6.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Wakefield Pork, Inc. falls in its industry

280 Pig farming establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 27 Pig farming employers in Minnesota.

Wakefield Pork, Inc. (189 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Wakefield Pork, Inc.
Wakefield Pork, Inc. (189 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7

Wakefield Pork, Inc. has more employees than the Pig farming median and a lower 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
2021 6.7 6.7 14 0 0
2020 4.0 3.5 8 0 0
2019 5.6 5.1 11 0 0
2018 8.8 6.3 21 0 0
2017 6.3 5.0 15 0 0
2016 9.7 8.3 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112210 · MN · Gaylord

280 Pig farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 13 employers in Gaylord, MN · 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 Sietsema Farms Feeds 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR J-Six Farms-Summit 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tompkins Family Farms. LLC 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Audubon Vet Clinic 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Utility 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Northern Corporation - Twin Cities 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curtis 1000 Inc - 0096-MNBY1 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE MultiTech Systems Inc. 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michael Foods Inc.- GY1 479 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Sibley 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oak Terrace Retirement Community of Gaylord 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oak Terrace Health Care Center of Gaylord 73 FTE
NAT-TCR First Student Branford 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Westfield Distributing of ND, Inc. (Horace) 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Equipped for Life 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Linen King, LLC (Columbia) 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mary Black Health System 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE B.Braun Medical, Inc. - Daytona Beach 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Touchmark at Mount Bachelor Village LLC 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Immanuel Fontenelle 189 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.