Beef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made from purchased carcasses · Indiana

White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant

Orleans, IN · ~46 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Beef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant safety composite

White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant: 4.4 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2024

White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant's TCR rose 3.3 from 4.4 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Orleans, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Philadelphia Raw
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Philadelphia Raw (0.0 TCR gap)

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White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Beef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2017=6.8 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=13.9 · 2021=9.9 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant falls in its industry

613 Beef, primal and sub-primal cu establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Beef, primal and sub-primal cu employers in Indiana.

White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant (46 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant
White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant (46 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

White Castle System, Inc. - Orleans Meat Plant has fewer employees than the Beef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made f 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 7.7 2.6 1 2 0
2023 2.5 0.0 0 1 0
2022 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2021 9.9 2.5 1 3 0
2020 13.9 2.3 3 3 0
2019 4.4 0.0 0 2 0
2018 6.8 4.5 3 0 0
2017 6.8 2.3 3 0 0
2016 4.4 2.2 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IN · Orleans

613 Beef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 8 employers in Orleans, IN · 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 Philadelphia Raw 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpha Omega Distributors 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeland Deli Manufacturing 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckhead Meat of San Antonio 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Legacy Parlor 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE 161-NiSource-Hammond IN-Gas Opns Center 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milhaus Construction LLC 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moore Restoration Inc 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jasper Seating Company Plant 15 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds Construction LLC 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Layne Christensen 4520 North State Road 37 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Older Americans Services Corp. 130 FTE
NAT-TCR DI Fleet Services 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tecan SP Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6989 Bulverde 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DCHM Comfort Suites Hartville 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Imperial Youngstown 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deseret Dairy 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tucson AZ DI 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hudson Chrysler LLC 46 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.