Industry profile · NAICS 311611
Beef produced in slaughtering plants
Workplace injury rates across 216 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.
- 216
- Employers
- 6.9
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- BLS benchmark
- 30,735
- Injuries
The industry picture
Employers in Beef produced in slaughtering plants average 6.9 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.1 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.
- 6.9
- avg TCR · reporting employers
- 3.3
- BLS national benchmark
- 216
- employers reporting
- 30,735
- recordable injuries
OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.
What Beef produced in slaughtering plants Safety Data Reveals
The Beef produced in slaughtering plants sector (NAICS 311611) encompasses 216 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 30,735 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.9 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.3 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 6.9 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.
The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Beef produced in slaughtering plants that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.
Employers in this industry, by injury rate
Page 1 of 5| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Range Beef | Gordon, NE | F | 27.2 |
| Vantage Foods PA LP | Camp Hill, PA | F | 27.0 |
| 7263 - 2-Main | Devine, TX | F | 25.7 |
| Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC | Sigourney, IA | F | 21.6 |
| True West Beef, LLC | Jerome, ID | F | 21.4 |
| Logan Premium Meats and Processing, LLC | Hopkinsville, KY | F | 20.9 |
| Manning Beef, LLC | Pico Rivera, CA | F | 20.4 |
| 4829-13820 | Kapolei, HI | F | 20.1 |
| 7263 - 2-Main | Irving, TX | F | 19.4 |
| Olson Meat | Orland, CA | F | 18.9 |
| Ohio Farms Packing Company | Creston, OH | F | 18.9 |
| Cargill Protein | Camp Hill, PA | F | 17.3 |
| Adams Farm Slaughterhouse, LLC | Athol, MA | F | 17.2 |
| GW Beef Company, LLC | Washington, Ok, OK | F | 16.7 |
| Independent Food Corp | Twin Falls, ID | F | 16.5 |
| OWB Packers | Brawley, CA | F | 16.2 |
| Superior Farms | Dixon, CA | F | 15.4 |
| Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC | Vernon, CA | F | 15.0 |
| Meat Processing Plant | Front Royal, VA | F | 14.9 |
| Pasco Plant | Pasco, WA | F | 14.4 |
| Logansport Plant | Logansport, IN | F | 13.9 |
| Superior Farms | Denver, CO | F | 13.8 |
| FM Meat Products | Fort Mccoy, FL | F | 12.9 |
| Madison Plant | Madison, NE | F | 12.7 |
| Storm Lake Plant | Storm Lake, IA | F | 12.6 |
| Vermont Packinghouse LLC | North Springfield, VT | F | 12.6 |
| Cargill | North Kingstown, RI | F | 12.5 |
| Marcho Farms, Inc. | Harleysville, PA | F | 12.2 |
| Keokuk Hills Beef Company LLC | Sigourney, IA | F | 12.1 |
| Waterloo Pork Plant | Waterloo, IA | F | 12.0 |
| Pioneer Meats, Inc. | Big Timber, MT | F | 11.9 |
| Central Valley Meat Company | Hanford, CA | F | 11.8 |
| Marcho Farms, Inc | Souderton, PA | F | 11.7 |
| Lamb & Veal, Maintenance | Detroit, MI | F | 11.6 |
| White Castle System, Inc. - Lebanon Meat Plant | Lebanon, IN | F | 11.3 |
| JBS Green Bay Inc | Green Bay, WI | F | 11.3 |
| Harris Ranch Beef Company | Selma, CA | F | 11.2 |
| Hatfield Facility | Hatfield, PA | F | 11.1 |
| nebraska beef | Omaha, NE | F | 11.0 |
| Colorado Lamb Processors | Brush, CO | F | 11.0 |
| Dietz and Watson Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | F | 10.9 |
| Edgewood Locker | Edgewood, IA | F | 10.7 |
| Jacksonville Plant (Bruss) | Jacksonville, FL | F | 10.6 |
| VPP Group, LLC | Norwalk, WI | F | 10.6 |
| Nicholas Meat, LLC | Loganton, PA | F | 10.3 |
| Walt's Wholesale Meats | Woodland, WA | F | 10.2 |
| HK Cooperative Inc. | Sandusky, OH | F | 10.1 |
| Northstar Packing, LLC | Dekalb, IL | F | 10.1 |
| Yoder Meats | Yoder, KS | F | 10.0 |
| Finney County Plant | Holcomb, KS | F | 9.9 |
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