Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) · Missouri

Butterball LLC

Carthage, MO · ~498 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butterball LLC runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) workplace, earning a grade B.

Butterball LLC: 2.1 TCR = 63% of Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butterball LLC safety composite

Butterball LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

Butterball LLC held a steady TCR band

Butterball LLC's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.0 in 2021 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.0 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Carthage, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO OKF Heavener Feed Mill
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~498 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OKF Heavener Feed Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Butterball LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butterball LLC averages 2.1 TCR (63% of the Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) BLS benchmark).

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

Butterball LLC TCR series: 2021=2 · 2022=2 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Butterball LLC falls in its industry

509 Canning poultry (except baby a establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 12 Canning poultry (except baby a employers in Missouri.

Butterball LLC (498 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Butterball LLC
Butterball LLC (498 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Butterball LLC has fewer employees than the Canning poultry (except baby and pet foo 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
2024 2.0 1.6 10 0 0
2023 2.4 0.6 11 0 0
2022 2.0 1.2 8 2 0
2021 2.0 1.5 11 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MO · Carthage

509 Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 58 employers in Carthage, MO · 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 OKF Heavener Feed Mill 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montevideo Plant 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR VBR 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koch Foods Processing 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lico Steel, Inc. 498 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aspen Products - Kansas City 498 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraft Heinz Columbia MO 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE KraftHeinz-Columbia 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carthage Plant 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schreiber Foods Fairview Plant 702 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairview Plant 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carthage Spring #0001 519 FTE
NAT-TCR Century Van Lines, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Ridge - 400 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Agi Mco 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Albarell Electric Inc 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Phoenix E80 Library 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Engineering Testing 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Komatsu America Corp 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Essity Professional Hygiene Barton 498 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. 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.