Poultry Processing · Kentucky

Albany Plant

Albany, KY · ~1,193 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Albany Plant runs at 239% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade F.

Albany Plant: 7.9 TCR = 239% of Poultry Processing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Albany Plant safety composite

Albany Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 6%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 6% 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%).

Albany Plant held a steady TCR band

Albany Plant's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.3 in 2018 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 25.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.3 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=12.9 · 2021=8.5 · 2022=25.7 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Albany, KY ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 239% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Grote and Weigel
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 118 inj
  • SIZE ~1,193 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grote and Weigel (0.0 TCR gap)

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Albany Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Albany Plant averages 7.9 TCR (239% of the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Albany Plant TCR series: 2018=1.3 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=12.9 · 2021=8.5 · 2022=25.7 · 2023=3 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Albany Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Poultry Processing employers in Kentucky.

Albany Plant (1,193 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 Albany Plant
Albany Plant (1,193 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Albany Plant has more employees than the Poultry Processing median and a higher 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
2024 1.2 0.6 10 3 0
2023 3.0 1.7 15 15 0
2022 25.7 25.3 16 251 0
2021 8.5 7.7 15 77 0
2020 12.9 12.2 22 129 1
2019 2.5 2.1 21 10 0
2018 1.3 1.2 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · KY · Albany

509 Poultry Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 8 employers in Albany, KY · 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 Grote and Weigel 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nashville Plant 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dexter Plant 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clarksville Plant 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowling Green Assembly 1,199 FTE
STATE-SIZE JBS 1,200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baptist Health Deaconess 1,214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fruit of the Loom Corporate Headquarters 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Medical Center at Albany 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR LP Albany, LLC---Clinton 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cowboy Charcoal - Albany 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Save A Lot #137 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Department of Commerce - Weights and Measures 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stanly Industrial Services 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dalco Metals, Inc 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mariani Nut Company 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aldridge Electric 1,193 FTE
NAT-SIZE Children's Hospital of San Antonio 1,193 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southcoast Physicians Group 1,193 FTE
NAT-SIZE CBI Riviera Beach DC 1,193 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.