Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Alabama

Butts Foods - Birmingham

Birmingham, AL · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butts Foods - Birmingham runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Butts Foods - Birmingham: 4.7 TCR = 215% of Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butts Foods - Birmingham safety composite

Butts Foods - Birmingham scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−6.0

2022→2024

Butts Foods - Birmingham injury rate improved

Butts Foods - Birmingham's TCR fell 6.0 from 9.2 in 2022 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.2 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 215% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK P50
  • PHOTO Newport Meat
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Newport Meat (0.0 TCR gap)

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Butts Foods - Birmingham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butts Foods - Birmingham averages 4.7 TCR (215% of the Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Butts Foods - Birmingham TCR series: 2022=9.2 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Butts Foods - Birmingham falls in its industry

162 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Butts Foods - Birmingham (38 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Butts Foods - Birmingham
Butts Foods - Birmingham (38 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Butts Foods - Birmingham has fewer employees than the Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2022 9.2 9.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · AL · Birmingham

162 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 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 Newport Meat 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Double D Meat Company, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denver Processing 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AVA Pork Products 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milstead Farm Group, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Division Selma Office 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eufaula State Docks Road Complex 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mobile Division Schillingers Road 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR Valicoff Fruit Company, Inc 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Shape Products 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center-Klein 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandFX, LLC - Swea City 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cortona Inn & Suites Anaheim 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landmark Electric Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marietta 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glendora - Vermont 38 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.