Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) manufacturing · Arkansas

Butterball - Ozark

Name: Butterball - Ozark Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ozark, AR · ~794 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

Butterball - Ozark runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Butterball - Ozark: 1.4 TCR = 43% of Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butterball - Ozark safety composite

Butterball - Ozark scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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).

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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 - Ozark held a steady TCR band

Butterball - Ozark's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.5 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.5 · 2023=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Ozark, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 43% of ind

DART 1.2 DART
RANK #8/69
PHOTO Butterball Jonesboro
BOOK 2y book
INJ 23 inj
SIZE ~794 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Butterball Jonesboro (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Butterball - Ozark averages 1.4 TCR (43% of the Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Butterball - Ozark TCR series: 2022=1.5 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Butterball - Ozark falls in its industry

509 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 69 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, employers in Arkansas.

Butterball - Ozark (794 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Butterball - Ozark has more employees than the Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, fr 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
2023	1.3	1.2	11	0	0
2022	1.5	0.8	12	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AR · Ozark

509 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 18 employers in Ozark, AR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Butterball Jonesboro	JONESBORO, AR	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Koch Foods of AL Kill	MONTGOMERY, AL	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Processing Plant - Pine Mountain Valley, GA	PINE MOUNTAIN VALLEY, GA	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Atkins, P-31877	ATKINS, AR	1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Lowell, AR - 611 J.B. Hunt Drive	LOWELL	797 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DECATUR PROCESSING	DECATUR	786 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fayetteville Complex	FAYETTEVILLE	786 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lockheed Martin Corporation Camden, AR (1527)	CAMDEN	784 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Butterball LLC	Ozark	626 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ABB Motors and Mechanical Inc.	Ozark	220 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ozark - 1910 Baldor Drive Highway 64	Ozark	207 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ozark - 1910 Baldor Drive; Highway 64	Ozark	197 FTE
NAT-TCR	Border States Electric - Amarillo	Amarillo, TX	1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Big Lots Store #5310 Fayetteville, NC	Fayetteville, NC	1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hot Line Construction Porterville	Porterville, CA	1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	ATR Lighting Enterprises Inc - Missouri	Richland, MO	1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Mattel Sales Corp	El Segundo, CA	794 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Holzer Medical Center	Gallipolis, OH	794 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cagar - Gardena Hub	Gardena, CA	794 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mdgai - Gaithersburg Hub	Gaithersburg, MD	794 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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