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CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS

600 S IOWA AVE, OTTUMWA, IA, 52501
Operated by Cargill Inc · 1 of 649 establishments
311611Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering

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OSHA inspections
15
over 20 years
Violations
64
$172,151 in penalties
SVEP
YES
Severe violator program
Violations across 4 federal agencies
Enforcement actions from multiple agencies may indicate systemic compliance issues across functions.
Accident investigations on record
1 fatality · 6 National Emphasis Program inspections · 3 OSHA follow-ups

Summary

CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS has accumulated 64 OSHA violations across 15 inspections over 20 years of recorded history, with $172,151 in total assessed penalties.

The establishment sits in the 98th percentile for violations within its industry-state peer group of 199 employers. Inspection frequency runs at the 94th percentile. The most recent enforcement activity was recorded 11 years ago.

Federal records were found in 4 of 15 sources. Sources without matching records returned empty for this establishment.

Agency coverage

CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS appears in OSHA workplace safety, WHD wage enforcement, EPA environmental compliance, NLRB labor relations, and UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry records only. No matching records were found in MSHA mine safety, OFLC visa and labor certification (historical), FMCSA motor carrier registration, SAM.gov federal debarment, CMS nursing home enforcement, CPSC product recalls, or NHTSA vehicle recalls.

OSHA workplace safety

Inspections
15
0.8 / yr · last 20 yrs
Violations
64
3.2 / yr
Penalties
$172,151
$2,690 avg / violation
31% serious69% other
Inspection trigger · complaint
9 of 15
Inspection trigger · referral
2 of 15

67% of inspections at this establishment produced violations, with 7 inspections producing serious-or-greater violations.

Most-cited OSHA standards

Top OSHA standards cited at this employer, ranked by citation count. Standards (CFR sections) cluster citations into safety themes -- machine guarding, lockout-tagout, hazard communication, fall protection, process safety, etc. A concentration on one or two sections reveals a pattern that individual citations don’t. 20 distinct standards shown · 27 citations in this view · $122,292 in penalties.

CFR sectionCitationsInspectionsTotal penaltyFirst citedLast cited
29 CFR 1910.0212 A0144$12,381Nov 2006Jan 2016
29 CFR 8800.0433$51,700Jan 2006Mar 2011
29 CFR 1904.0004 A31$7,500Mar 2011Mar 2011
29 CFR 1910.0212 A03 III11$5,000Jul 2008Jul 2008
29 CFR 1910.0120 Q02 I11$5,000Jan 2006Jan 2006
29 CFR 1910.0132 D01 I11$3,750Mar 2011Mar 2011
29 CFR 1910.0146 C0211$3,750Mar 2011Mar 2011
29 CFR 1910.0219 F0111$2,975Jun 2010Jun 2010
29 CFR 1910.0252 D01 III11$2,975May 2010May 2010
29 CFR 1910.0254 D0611$2,975May 2010May 2010
29 CFR 1910.1200 H03 I11$2,500Aug 2011Aug 2011
29 CFR 1910.0151 C11$2,500Mar 2011Mar 2011
29 CFR 1910.0219 C04 I11$2,500Mar 2011Mar 2011
29 CFR 1910.0119 M0311$2,500Mar 2011Mar 2011
29 CFR 1910.0036 G0211$2,381Jan 2016Jan 2016
29 CFR 1910.0147 C05 I11$2,381Jan 2016Jan 2016
29 CFR 1910.0037 B0611$2,381Jan 2016Jan 2016
29 CFR 1910.0212 A03 II11$2,381Jan 2016Jan 2016
29 CFR 1910.0037 B0511$2,381Jan 2016Jan 2016
29 CFR 1910.0147 C04 II A11$2,381Jan 2016Jan 2016

Source: OSHA inspection citations (violation_detail). CFR section codes can be looked up at osha.gov/laws-regs for the formal standard text. Per-inspection detail and the specific violation descriptions are available by expanding individual inspections below.

Peer comparison

98th

Worse on violations than nearly every other employer in NAICS 3116 within IA. Peer group: 199 employers. This establishment has 64 OSHA violations; peer median is 3.

Fewer violationsMore violations
Penalty percentile
98th
peer median: $3,375
Inspection frequency
94th
peer median: 2

Safety self-report (OSHA 300A)

No self-reported injury rates filed with OSHA's Injury Tracking Application for CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS. Verify directly with OSHA Injury Tracking Application

Industry benchmark

Industry avg TRIR
4.0
BLS SOII 2024
Industry avg DART
2.8
BLS SOII 2024
Self-reported TRIR
Not in OSHA ITA

BLS rates reflect industry-wide averages. Self-reported figures come from OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application; absence of self-reported data does not necessarily indicate non-compliance — many establishments fall below the ITA reporting threshold.

Inspection breakdown

Planned
1
Complaint
9
Accident
1
Referral
2

Complaint- and accident-triggered inspections are stronger risk signals than routine planned inspections.

OSHA severe injury reports

No severe injury reports (hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye) on file under 29 CFR 1904.39 for CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS. Verify directly with Occupational Safety and Health Administration

OSHA accident events

Accidents, fatalities, and catastrophes documented during OSHA inspections at this employer. Each entry links to the inspection that recorded it.

DateEventInjuriesHospitalizedFatalities
Sep 3, 2010AMPUTATED,FINGER,GLOVE,CLEANING,FOOD PACKAGING MACH,DISINFECTANT,ENTANGLED,HAND1
Apr 17, 2008AMPUTATED,FINGER,PACKING HOUSE,LOCKOUT,PRESS1
Nov 16, 2005COLLAPSE,RAIL,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED,CONVEYOR,LOGGER,FALLING OBJECT,LOGGINGFatality11

Source: OSHA accident investigations. Narratives are recorded by the inspecting officer and may be truncated.

Activity timeline

Data refreshed
Weekly
First OSHA inspection
Most recent activity
11 years ago

No federal enforcement activity has been recorded against this establishment in 11+ years. Most recent activity: 11 years ago. Data on this page is refreshed weekly.

Wage & Hour Division (WHD)

Cases
1
Back wages owed
$0
Employees affected
1

Department of Labor Wage & Hour Division — minimum-wage, overtime, child-labor, FMLA, and prevailing-wage enforcement.

Wage and hour breakdown by law

Per-statute totals across all closed DOL Wage & Hour cases against this employer. Backwages reflect amounts the agency assessed; civil penalty is the separate fine where applicable. Some acts (Davis-Bacon, SCA, CWHSSA, H-2B, CCPA) don't carry a civil penalty field in DOL's data. 1 statute · 1 violation · $0 in backwages

StatutePeriodCasesViolationsWorkersBackwagesCivil penalty
FMLA (family & medical leave)Feb 201011

Source: DOL WHD enforcement database, aggregated per statute. Lifetime totals. A case can cite multiple statutes — so the total here may exceed the case count in the table above.

Wage and hour cases

Closed DOL Wage & Hour Division cases (FLSA, FMLA, H-2B, MSPA, and related statutes). Backwages reflect amounts the agency assessed; civil penalty (CMP) is a separate fine levied on top, where the statute provides for one (FLSA / H-1B / H-2A / MSPA / FMLA / EPPA / FLSA Child Labor; other acts have no CMP column in DOL’s data). The Statutes column lists which laws each case cited. 1 case · 1 violations · $0 in backwages · 1 worker affected

Case periodIndustryStatutesViolationsWorkersBackwagesCivil penalty
Oct 2008 – Feb 2010Animal (except Poultry) SlaughteringFMLA11

Source: DOL WHD enforcement database. Cases shown reflect those the agency has closed and made public. A violation count is the agency’s tally of cited violations (one violation can affect many workers); the workers column counts distinct employees the agency found to be affected.

Mine safety (MSHA)

No MSHA mine safety violations on file for CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS. Verify directly with Mine Safety and Health Administration

Labor relations (NLRB)

Company-level in IA — for Cargill Inc, not this location alone

Total cases
2
Unfair labor practice
2

National Labor Relations Board — unfair labor practice charges and union representation cases. The NLRB records cases at the company/regional level (no worksite address), so these are matched by company name and state and may span other Cargill Inc locations in the same state.

NLRB cases

National Labor Relations Board cases involving this employer. Includes unfair labor practice (ULP) filings and representation election proceedings. NLRB enforcement is process-driven; no per-case monetary penalty is assessed (remedies are case-by-case backpay orders, posting requirements, election re-runs, etc.). 2 cases · 2 ULP

Case numberTypeFiledClosedStatusRegion
18-CA-076372Unfair labor practiceMar 2012Apr 2012ClosedRegion 18, Minneapolis, Minnesota
18-CA-018468Unfair labor practiceAug 2007Oct 2007ClosedRegion 18, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Source: NLRB case files. Rows shown are those the agency has published. Region numbers (1–31) correspond to NLRB's geographic offices.

Visa & labor certification (OFLC) — historical

No H-1B, H-2A, or H-2B labor condition applications on file (historical data only — DOL ended OFLC publication) for CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS. Verify directly with Office of Foreign Labor Certification

Environmental compliance (EPA)

EPA inspections
4
Quarters non-compliant
5

EPA Enforcement and Compliance History — Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, Safe Drinking Water Act. Status: Significant Violation.

EPA-registered facilities

Every EPA ECHO facility associated with this employer, sorted most-significant first. Each row links to EPA’s Detailed Facility Report for the source-of-truth record. Permits column lists active programs (Air = Clean Air Act, Water = Clean Water Act, RCRA = hazardous waste, TRI = Toxics Release Inventory reporting). 1 facility · 1 significant noncompliance.

FacilityPermitsStatusInspectionsFormal actionsPenaltiesLast inspectedECHO
CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS CORP
600 SOUTH IOWA AVENUE · OTTUMWA, IA, 52501
AirWaterRCRATRISignificant Violation
QNCR 5
40Feb 2026View →

Source: EPA ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History Online). Compliance status follows EPA’s own labels (“Sig Violation” = significant noncompliance; QNCR = quarters of noncompliance over the recent reporting window). Inactive facilities (struck through) retain historical enforcement records even after operations ceased.

Federal criminal prosecution record

Prosecutions
1
Total payments
$200K
Disposition
Guilty Plea
Crime type
Environmental

First case: 2009-11-13. Most recent: 2009-11-13. Source: UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry — federal pleas, DPAs, and NPAs.

Federal prosecution case file

Federal corporate prosecution records from the University of Virginia Corporate Prosecution Registry. DPA = Deferred Prosecution Agreement; NPA = Non-Prosecution Agreement; both are pre-trial settlements where the defendant accepts terms but avoids conviction. Monitor = court-appointed compliance oversight, usually 2-5 years. 1 case · 1 plea/conviction · $200,000 in penalties / restitution.

CaseDateDispositionCrimeJurisdictionTotal paymentMonitor
USA v. Cargill Meat Solutions Corp.
Cargill Meat Solutions Corp.
Nov 2009pleaEnvironmentalColorado$200,000No

Source: University of Virginia Corporate Prosecution Registry (maintained by Prof. Brandon L. Garrett, Duke University). The registry has no state or jurisdiction-of-incorporation field on the company side, so same-name employers in different states may mis-attribute -- verify against the source case documents when precision matters.

Federal contracts

No federal contracts are recorded to this specific location.

Company-wide — CARGILL, INCORPORATED (across 8 entities)
Obligated (5-yr)
$414.6M
Obligated (all-time)
$2.5B
Awards (all-time)
963

Consolidated across all USAspending recipient entities under this corporate parent — not attributable to this single location.

Federal contract activity for the parent corporation. Source: USAspending.gov, net obligations. Recipient address is the SAM registration / HQ address, not necessarily the worksite.

Inspection history

DateTriggerViolationsSeriousPenalty
2015-07-14Complaint2710$50,001
2014-11-18Complaint0$0
2014-10-13Complaint0$0
2014-01-09Complaint71$10,875
2013-02-25Unprogrammed Related11$2,000
2011-06-09Complaint1$2,500
2011-05-02Complaint0$0
2010-10-13Referral185$36,875
2010-05-24Complaint2$2,975
2010-01-14Complaint41$8,925
2009-05-04Planned0$0
2008-06-25Referral1$5,000
2008-03-18Complaint0$0
2006-09-15Unprogrammed Related11$3,000
2005-11-17Accident21$50,000

Source: OSHA IMIS. Citation amounts reflect initially assessed penalties; final amounts after appeal may differ.

In the news

Part of a larger organization

CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS is one of 649 establishments rolled up under the parent organization Cargill Inc.

Federal enforcement records on this page represent activity at this specific establishment only. The full enforcement footprint of Cargill Inc across all 649 of its tracked locations is viewable on the parent profile.

Other employers in this industry and state

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Other locations under this parent

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About this data

This profile aggregates federal enforcement records on CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS from every major federal compliance and enforcement source plus the UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry. OSHA workplace safety inspections, WHD wage cases, MSHA mine safety, EPA environmental enforcement, NLRB labor relations, OFLC visa/labor certification, FMCSA motor carrier registration, SAM.gov debarments, CMS nursing-home records, BLS industry safety benchmarks, OSHA ITA self-reported injury rates, SEC enforcement and financial disclosures, CPSC and NHTSA recalls.

Establishments are matched across agencies using normalized employer name, state, and ZIP code. This establishment resolves to the parent rollup Cargill Inc, which operates 649 establishments in our dataset.

OSHA citations typically appear 3–8 months after the inspection, so very recent enforcement actions may not yet be reflected. Profiles may be incomplete if the establishment operates under multiple legal names or files under variations our entity-matching rules don’t yet cover. To report a missing record or correction, email corrections@fastdol.com.

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Frequently asked

What is CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS's OSHA violation history?
CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS has 15 OSHA inspections on record with 64 violations and $172,151 in total penalties.
How does CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS's safety record compare to its industry?
CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS operates in the animal (except poultry) slaughtering industry. The industry average Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) is 4.
Has CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS had any workplace fatalities?
Yes. Federal records show 1 fatality investigation involving CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS.