Turkey hatcheries · North Carolina

Butterball Hatchery # 3

Goldsboro, NC · ~49 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butterball Hatchery # 3 runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Turkey hatcheries workplace, earning a grade B.

Butterball Hatchery # 3: 3.0 TCR = 68% of Turkey hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butterball Hatchery # 3 safety composite

Butterball Hatchery # 3 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2016→2022

Butterball Hatchery # 3 injury rate improved

Butterball Hatchery # 3's TCR fell 1.9 from 1.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Goldsboro, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 68% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/14
  • PHOTO Morrilton Hatchery
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morrilton Hatchery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Butterball Hatchery # 3 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butterball Hatchery # 3 averages 3.0 TCR (68% of the Turkey hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Butterball Hatchery # 3 TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Butterball Hatchery # 3 falls in its industry

197 Turkey hatcheries establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 14 Turkey hatcheries employers in North Carolina.

Butterball Hatchery # 3 (49 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 020406080100120 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Butterball Hatchery # 3
Butterball Hatchery # 3 (49 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Butterball Hatchery # 3 has more employees than the Turkey hatcheries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.1 2.0 2 0 0
2020 6.2 2.1 3 0 0
2016 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · NC · Goldsboro

197 Turkey hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 145 employers in Goldsboro, NC · 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 Morrilton Hatchery 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fayetteville Hatchery (CV) 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morganton Hatchery 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zackly Rite Farms 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Raleigh 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matthews Operations Center 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-County Electric Membership Corp 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherry Hospital 1,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Wayne - All 966 FTE
CITY-NEAR O'Berry Neuro Medical Treatment Center 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR AP Emissions 422 FTE
NAT-TCR Tops #428 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerdau-Wilton Mill 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR R. Montanez Farms, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Waring 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bulldog Factory Service 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Darling International Inc 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied Kansas City Front St. 49 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2016. 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.