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Cargill
OSHA: 17 insp.Injuries: 3 yrLabor: 4 casesImmigration: no recordContracts: $35M
Across the sources on this site, Cargill (Fremont, Nebraska) appears in 17 OSHA inspections, 4 concluded Wage and Hour Division cases, a federal contract recipient profile and 3 years of injury summaries.
OSHA opened 17 inspections at Cargill sites in Nebraska since 2016, issuing 13 citations, 7 of them classified serious, willful or repeat. Current penalties total $130,678 (initially $172,442), $7,687 per inspection, above the national figure of $3,754. 5 inspections have at least one contested citation.
On its 2025 Form 300A summary the employer reported 3,285 employees and 161 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 5.2 per 100 full-time workers, higher than the pooled rate for its industry (3.2; median establishment 2.8).
The Wage and Hour Division concluded 4 compliance actions involving Cargill, recording $15,408 in back wages agreed to pay for 1 employee, under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
USAspending lists Cargill, Incorporated as a parent recipient of $35M in federal contract obligations over the latest twelve months.
Is this the same company? The sources spell the name differently and were matched by normalised name and state: OSHA: Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation; WHD: Cargill Meat Solutions; ITA: Cargill; USAspending: Cargill, Incorporated. Subsidiaries, franchisees and entities in other states have separate records. Matching methodology.
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 | Nebraska | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 0.8 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $7,687 | $6,840 | $6,750 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 29% | — | 4% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 47% | — | 60% | 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.
Citations by standard
| Standard | Subject | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1910.147 | The control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout) | 3 |
| 1910.303 | Electrical, general requirements | 2 |
| 5(a)(1) | General Duty Clause | 2 |
| 1910.119 | Process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals | 2 |
| 1910.212 | Machinery and machine guarding, general requirements | 1 |
| 1910.120 | Hazardous waste operations and emergency response | 1 |
| 1910.22 | Walking-working surfaces, general requirements | 1 |
| 1910.242 | Hand and portable powered tools and equipment, general | 1 |
Standard numbers as the record labels them (29 CFR section; 5(a)(1) is the General Duty Clause). State-plan agencies such as Cal/OSHA cite their own codes, which appear here as recorded. Counted from the first twelve citations of each inspection.
Inspections
| Opened | Type | Scope | Citations | Current penalty | Status | Cited standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jun 2026 | Referral · Health | Complete | 0 | — | Open | |
| 6 May 2026 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 22 Jul 2025 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 16 Jul 2025 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 29 May 2025 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 1 (1 S/W/R) | $11,823 | Final order | 1910.212(a)(1) (Serious) |
| 23 Jan 2024 | Planned · Safety | Complete | 2 | $15,083 | Contested, final order | 1910.303(b)(2), 1910.303(b)(7)(iv) |
| 21 Jun 2023 | Unprogrammed related · Health | Partial | 2 (1 S/W/R) | $31,250 | Contested, final order | 1910.147(c)(7)(i)(a) (Serious), 1910.120(c)(2) |
| 30 Mar 2023 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 5 Oct 2022 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 3 (1 S/W/R) | $20,000 | Final order | 1910.22(a)(3), 1910.147(d)(2) (Serious), 1910.242(b) |
| 19 Jul 2022 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 13 Oct 2021 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 1 (1 S/W/R) | $13,653 | Contested, final order | 5(a)(1) (Serious) |
| 9 Oct 2019 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 25 Jun 2019 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 1 (1 S/W/R) | $9,472 | Contested, final order | 5(a)(1) (Serious) |
| 27 Feb 2018 | Planned · Safety | Partial | 2 (1 S/W/R) | $23,097 | Contested, final order | 1910.119(i)(2)(i) (Serious), 1910.119(j)(4)(iii) |
| 20 Oct 2016 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 1 (1 S/W/R) | $6,300 | Final order | 1910.147(d)(4)(i) (Serious) |
| 2 Mar 2016 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 4 Feb 2016 | Referral · Safety | No inspection | 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 | 3,366 | 7,421,444 | 0 | 26 | 92 | 58 | 4.7 | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,408 | 6,640,487 | 0 | 27 | 93 | 53 | 5.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,285 | 6,171,329 | 0 | 24 | 81 | 56 | 5.2 | 3.4 |
Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in Nebraska. 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.
Back wages by year of case conclusion
Compared with state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 311 | Nebraska | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back wages per case | $3,852 | $15K | $5,604 | $13K |
| Employees per case | 0.3 | — | 7.5 | 13.1 |
| Back wages per employee found due | $15K | — | $751 | $993 |
Acts
| Act | Violations | Back wages |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Medical Leave Act | 4 | $15,408 |
Cases
| Findings period | Violations | Back wages agreed | Employees | Penalties | Acts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Apr 2025 – 29 Jul 2025 | 1 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 17 May 2023 – 14 Aug 2023 | 1 | $15,408 | 1 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 28 Jul 2018 – 27 Jul 2019 | 2 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 1 Sep 2014 – 22 Sep 2014 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
Every case in the WHD file is concluded; the file does not record whether back wages were subsequently paid. Case IDs: 2006039, 1983107, 1884598, 1742584.
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 Nebraska 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 17 inspections at Cargill sites in Nebraska since 2016, most recently opened 1 Jun 2026.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
13 citations with current penalties totalling $130,678. 8 inspections have a final order on every citation, 5 have a contested citation and 9 are recorded as issued. Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Cargill?
The Wage and Hour Division's concluded cases record $15,408 in back wages agreed to pay across 4 cases, for 1 employee.
Does Cargill sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from Cargill in Nebraska 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; the sources spell the name differently (OSHA: Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation; WHD: Cargill Meat Solutions; ITA: Cargill; USAspending: Cargill, Incorporated). 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.