Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) · Alabama

Alatrade-Boaz

Boaz, AL · ~350 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alatrade-Boaz runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) workplace, earning a grade B.

Alatrade-Boaz: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alatrade-Boaz safety composite

Alatrade-Boaz scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Alatrade-Boaz: 0.3 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2019

Alatrade-Boaz's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.3 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Boaz, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #15/55
  • PHOTO Union Springs Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~350 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Union Springs Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alatrade-Boaz in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Alatrade-Boaz averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Alatrade-Boaz TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2018=3 · 2019=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Alatrade-Boaz falls in its industry

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, f establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 55 Chickens, processing, fresh, f employers in Alabama.

Alatrade-Boaz (350 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Alatrade-Boaz
Alatrade-Boaz (350 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Alatrade-Boaz has fewer employees than the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, can median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2019 2.3 2.1 9 0 0
2018 3.0 2.3 11 1 0
2016 0.3 0.2 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AL · Boaz

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 35 employers in Boaz, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Union Springs Plant 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koch Foods-Gainesville 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winesburg Plant 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Concord Complex 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1101 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 7280 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Spa 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE Borgers US 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 298 368 FTE
CITY-NEAR 298 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alatrade Foods Inc - Boaz 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kabco Builders, Inc. 229 FTE
NAT-TCR Meijer 109 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mack Engine Plant 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sterling Boiler & Mechanical, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR G. W. Fishell Painting & Contracting, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hormel Foods Corporation 350 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reinke Manufacturing Company, Inc. Deshler Location 350 FTE
NAT-SIZE ND,FARGO - Southpointe Clinic Campus - Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 350 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hayden Operations 350 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.