Chickens, slaughtering and dressing · South Carolina

Best Dressed Chicken Inc.

Ward, SC · ~125 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Dressed Chicken Inc. runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chickens, slaughtering and dressing workplace, earning a grade D.

Best Dressed Chicken Inc.: 4.7 TCR = 142% of Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Dressed Chicken Inc. safety composite

Best Dressed Chicken Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Best Dressed Chicken Inc.: 3.7 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2020

Best Dressed Chicken Inc.'s TCR rose 2.0 from 3.7 in 2019 to 5.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Ward, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 142% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Washington Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Washington Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Best Dressed Chicken Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Dressed Chicken Inc. averages 4.7 TCR (142% of the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS benchmark).

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

Best Dressed Chicken Inc. TCR series: 2019=3.7 · 2020=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Best Dressed Chicken Inc. falls in its industry

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dre establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Chickens, slaughtering and dre employers in South Carolina.

Best Dressed Chicken Inc. (125 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 Best Dressed Chicken Inc.
Best Dressed Chicken Inc. (125 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Best Dressed Chicken Inc. has fewer employees than the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing 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
2020 5.7 5.7 8 0 0
2019 3.7 1.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · SC · Ward

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dressing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 5 employers in Ward, SC · 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 Washington Plant 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PILGRIMS COLD SPRING - JFC- LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DRAPER VALLEY MAIN OFFICE 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wing Lee Farm Corporation 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE King Construction Services 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interfor 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE HoneywellSC14 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE C502 Marion 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Pet Food Solutions 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR JRD Growers 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR QSI Ward 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Ihop 1529 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Action Materials Inc 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Armbrust International, Ltd. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR St David's Center for Child & Family Development 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glade Valley Center 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vanhooseco Management LLC 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Armbrust YMCA 125 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: 2020, 2019. 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.