Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses
NAICS 311612
Workplace safety data for employers in this industry
What Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses Safety Data Reveals
The Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses sector (NAICS 311612) encompasses 627 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 27,200 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 20.1 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 20.1 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 Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.
Employers by Safety Rate (Page 7 of 13)
| Employer | Location | Avg TCR | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern States Provisions | CHESTERFIELD, VA | 4.6 | D |
| empirical foods, inc. - South Sioux City | SOUTH SIOUX CITY, NE | 4.6 | D |
| Prime Meats Duluth | DULUTH, GA | 4.5 | D |
| Smithfield Foods | ARNOLD, PA | 4.5 | D |
| 814 Americas | ELIZABETH, NJ | 4.5 | D |
| OSI Industries, LLC | CHICAGO, IL | 4.5 | D |
| PIPESTONE SWIFT PORK COMPANY | PIPESTONE, MN | 4.5 | D |
| Smithfield - Cudahy Packaged | CUDAHY, WI | 4.5 | D |
| ISC Inc dba Isernio Sausage Company | KENT, WA | 4.5 | D |
| Cincinnati | HAMILTON, OH | 4.5 | D |
| Browerville | BROWERVILLE, MN | 4.5 | D |
| CLW Foods, LLC | VERNON, CA | 4.4 | D |
| Catelli Brothers Inc. | COLLINGSWOOD, NJ | 4.4 | D |
| Fresh Mark Salem | SALEM, OH | 4.4 | D |
| Olympia Processing, LLC | OLYMPIA, WA | 4.4 | D |
| Skylark Meats | OMAHA, NE | 4.4 | D |
| Fort Worth Cooked | FORT WORTH, TX | 4.4 | D |
| Beef Products, Inc. - South Sioux City | SOUTH SIOUX CITY, NE | 4.4 | D |
| Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners | BURLINGTON, IA | 4.4 | D |
| Cooked - Nebraska City NE | NEBRASKA CITY, NE | 4.4 | D |
| Devro, Inc. | SWANSEA, SC | 4.4 | D |
| Specialty Foods Group, LLC | OWENSBORO, KY | 4.3 | D |
| Fair Oaks Farms, West Plant | PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WI | 4.3 | D |
| Dan's Prize Long Prairie | LONG PRAIRIE, MN | 4.3 | D |
| Skyline Provisions Inc. | HARVEY, IL | 4.3 | D |
| GSF Conyers Protein | CONYERS, GA | 4.3 | D |
| Zeeland Plant | ZEELAND, MI | 4.3 | D |
| Deseret Meat | SPANISH FORK, UT | 4.2 | D |
| Swift Beef Company Greeley Value Added | GREELEY, CO | 4.2 | D |
| Farmington Foods Inc. | FOREST PARK, IL | 4.2 | D |
| Omaha Steaks F St | OMAHA, NE | 4.2 | D |
| amity packing | CHICAGO, IL | 4.1 | D |
| SQUARE-H BRANDS, INC. | VERNON, CA | 4.1 | D |
| Smithfield Foods | CUMMING, GA | 4.1 | D |
| Green Bay Dressed Beef Processing | GREEN BAY, WI | 4.1 | D |
| Mrs. Ressler's Food Products Company | PHILADELPHIA, PA | 4.0 | D |
| Magic City Foods | ALABASTER, AL | 4.0 | D |
| Birchwood Foods | NORCROSS, GA | 4.0 | D |
| Schweid & Sons (GA) | COLLEGE PARK, GA | 4.0 | C |
| Smithfield Foods | SAN JOSE, CA | 4.0 | C |
| Smithfield Carroll | CARROLL, IA | 3.9 | C |
| 304 | MILWAUKEE, WI | 3.9 | C |
| Monogram Quality Foods LLC | DENISON, IA | 3.9 | C |
| Del Monte Meat Company | LAS VEGAS, NV | 3.9 | C |
| Burgers' Smokehouse | CALIFORNIA, MO | 3.9 | C |
| Stock Yards Buffalo | BLASDELL, NY | 3.9 | C |
| Tre | ST. LOUIS, MO | 3.8 | C |
| Zanesville Plant | ZANESVILLE, OH | 3.8 | C |
| Kansas City North Smithfield | KANSAS CITY, MO | 3.8 | C |
| Fort Worth Plant | FORT WORTH, TX | 3.8 | C |
Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.