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Cargill
OSHA: 2 insp.Injuries: 3 yrLabor: no recordImmigration: no recordContracts: $35M
Across the sources on this site, Cargill (Mentone, Indiana) appears in 2 OSHA inspections, a federal contract recipient profile and 3 years of injury summaries.
OSHA opened 2 inspections at Cargill sites in Indiana since 2016, issuing 0 citations. Current penalties total $0, $0 per inspection, below the national figure of $3,754. No citation is recorded as contested.
On its 2025 Form 300A summary the employer reported 130 employees and 1 recordable case, a total recordable case rate of 0.7 per 100 full-time workers, lower than the pooled rate for its industry (3.2; median establishment 2.8).
USAspending lists Cargill, Incorporated as a parent recipient of $35M in federal contract obligations over the latest twelve months.
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date. Enforcement data through 14 Sep 2026.
Inspections by year
Compared with industry, state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 311 | Indiana | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $0 | $6,840 | $1,691 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 0% | — | 3% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 0% | — | 51% | 56% |
Inspections with no citations count as "issued" with zero citations. Industry and state figures cover every inspection in the enforcement data since 2016, including employers without a page.
Inspections
| Opened | Type | Scope | Citations | Current penalty | Status | Cited standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Jun 2024 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 14 Dec 2023 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed |
Status is per inspection: "Contested" when any citation has a contest date and "Final order" when every citation has a final order date; "Issued" otherwise. Violation types: S serious, W willful, R repeat. Each date links to the inspection detail on osha.gov.
Injuries OSHA Injury Tracking Application, Form 300A
Establishments submit their own Form 300A summaries; OSHA publishes the data as submitted and does not verify it. Rates are per 100 full-time workers (cases × 200,000 ÷ hours worked). Calendar years 2023–2025.
Injury rate vs industry
Total recordable case rate for 2025. The industry median is the median rate across establishments with at least 20,000 hours in NAICS 311 (quartiles 1.0–5.5); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.
By year
| Year | Establishments | Employees | Hours | Deaths | Days away | Restricted/transfer | Other | TRC rate | DART rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | 412 | 895,333 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 407 | 889,806 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 130 | 305,821 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in Indiana. Rates are blank where fewer than 2,000 hours were reported.
Labor Wage and Hour Division
The Wage and Hour Division publishes concluded compliance actions since fiscal year 2005; amounts are back wages the employer agreed to pay and civil money penalties assessed, as recorded at case conclusion. Data through 15 Jun 2026.
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names this employer in Indiana in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Immigration Office of Foreign Labor Certification
Employer-specific case information was provided to OFLC by employers who submitted foreign labor certification applications. These are not employer responses to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' survey. Wage levels I–IV are as the employer stated on the application. LCA data through 30 Jun 2026; PERM through 30 Jun 2026.
No labor condition application from this employer in Indiana appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026.
No PERM application from this employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Contracts USAspending.gov
USAspending recipient totals are federal contract obligations reported by awarding agencies for the latest twelve months; a recipient profile is a company-level record, not a per-state one. Retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
USAspending lists Cargill, Incorporated among the 3,903 largest federal contract recipients. The full award list is on the recipient profile.
The USAspending name is matched to this employer by normalised company name across all states; the total covers the whole company.
Questions and answers
Has OSHA inspected Cargill?
Yes. OSHA records 2 inspections at Cargill sites in Indiana since 2016, most recently opened 24 Jun 2024.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
The recorded inspections carry no citations.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Cargill?
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names Cargill in Indiana in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Does Cargill sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from Cargill in Indiana appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026. LCAs are filed by the employer's headquarters state, so a subsidiary or another state's entity may hold the filings.
Does Cargill sponsor green cards (PERM)?
No PERM application from the employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Does Cargill hold federal contracts?
USAspending lists it among the largest contract recipients, with $35M obligated over the latest twelve months (recipient level: parent).
Have there been union elections at Cargill?
NLRB election results are not loaded on this site at present, so this page cannot say either way. The NLRB publishes recent election results and a case search on nlrb.gov.
Is this the same company as the one I am looking for?
Records are matched by normalised name and state. Subsidiaries, franchisees and other states' entities have their own records. See the methodology for how matching works.
Provenance
OSHA inspections and violations: US Department of Labor enforcement data, data.dol.gov, through 14 Sep 2026, inspections opened since 2016. Injury summaries: OSHA Injury Tracking Application Form 300A data, calendar years 2023, 2024, 2025. Wage and Hour compliance actions: data.dol.gov, concluded cases through 15 Jun 2026. LCA and PERM: OFLC disclosure files, fiscal years 2025–2026 through 30 Jun 2026. Federal contracts: USAspending recipient API, latest twelve months at 1 Oct 2026. NLRB election results are not loaded in this build. US government works, public domain; USAspending data is released under CC0. Page built 1 Oct 2026; errors in processing are corrected at the next build (corrections). Disputes about a record go to the agency that holds it.