Frozen meats (except packaged) merchant wholesalers · Alabama

Butts Foods Birmingham

Birmingham, AL · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butts Foods Birmingham runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Frozen meats (except packaged) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Butts Foods Birmingham: 5.8 TCR = 262% of Frozen meats (except packaged) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butts Foods Birmingham safety composite

Butts Foods Birmingham scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Butts Foods Birmingham: 2.2 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2021

Butts Foods Birmingham's TCR rose 7.1 from 2.2 in 2020 to 9.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 5.8 · 262% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK P40
  • PHOTO Gourmet Ranch
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gourmet Ranch (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 5.8 TCR (262% of the Frozen meats (except packaged) 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: 2020=2.2 · 2021=9.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Butts Foods Birmingham falls in its industry

162 Frozen meats (except packaged) establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Butts Foods Birmingham (45 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 (45 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Frozen meats (except packaged) merchant median and a higher 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
2021 9.3 3.1 3 0 0
2020 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · AL · Birmingham

162 Frozen meats (except packaged) 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 Gourmet Ranch 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL-FTLAU02-Ft Lauderdale - FL - Halperns 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor's Sausage Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mister Price, Inc. 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corbitt Power & Light LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gadsden Complex - APC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gadsden Complex 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cottage Builders Inc, dba as CBI Construction Services 45 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 Greene Farmers Co-op Store 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ProHealth Home Care and Angle's Grace Hospice 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Decoral System USA 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR JUNCOS 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advantage Logistics Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eagle Transport Corporation - N Augusta 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eagle Transport Corporation - Charlotte 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kem Krest - Brighton Bldg B 45 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.