Processed poultry manufacturing · North Carolina

Butterball LLC, Raeford

Raeford, NC · ~651 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butterball LLC, Raeford runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Processed poultry manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Butterball LLC, Raeford: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Processed poultry manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butterball LLC, Raeford safety composite

Butterball LLC, Raeford scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2022→2024

Butterball LLC, Raeford injury rate improved

Butterball LLC, Raeford's TCR fell 1.5 from 2.3 in 2022 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.3 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Raeford, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #9/32
  • PHOTO Huntsville Processin…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~651 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Huntsville Processing Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Butterball LLC, Raeford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butterball LLC, Raeford averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Processed poultry manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Butterball LLC, Raeford TCR series: 2022=2.3 · 2023=1 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Butterball LLC, Raeford falls in its industry

509 Processed poultry manufacturin establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 32 Processed poultry manufacturin employers in North Carolina.

Butterball LLC, Raeford (651 employees, TCR 1.4) 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, Raeford
Butterball LLC, Raeford (651 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Butterball LLC, Raeford has more employees than the Processed poultry manufacturing 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 0.8 0.7 5 0 0
2023 1.0 0.3 5 1 0
2022 2.3 2.0 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · NC · Raeford

509 Processed poultry manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 30 employers in Raeford, 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 Huntsville Processing Plant 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accomac Complex 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilgrim's Pride CP 125 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farbest Foods Huntingburg 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 71101 651 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reynolds Consumer Products - Huntersville Tableware Plant 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrolux Major Appliances 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charlotte Headquarters 652 FTE
CITY-NEAR Butterball LLC- Raeford, NC 646 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burlington Raeford Plant 382 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raeford 341 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cape Fear Valley Health System/Hoke County 331 FTE
NAT-TCR Gemu Valves, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nikkiso Cryo 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR International Paper 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Irvin Plant 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Materion - Elmore 651 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toa-USA, LLC 651 FTE
NAT-SIZE AS - Automotive Steering 651 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medical City North Hills 651 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. 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.