Other Animal Food Manufacturing · North Carolina

Candor Feedmill

Eagle Springs, NC · ~56 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Candor Feedmill runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Other Animal Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Candor Feedmill: 2.0 TCR = 52% of Other Animal Food Manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Candor Feedmill safety composite

Candor Feedmill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Candor Feedmill: 0.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.72× in 2023

Candor Feedmill's TCR rose 3.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Eagle Springs, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 52% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #10/29
  • PHOTO McDowell & Walker, I…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McDowell & Walker, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Candor Feedmill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Candor Feedmill averages 2.0 TCR (52% of the Other Animal Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Candor Feedmill TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.5 · BLS 3.9

Where Candor Feedmill falls in its industry

756 Other Animal Food Manufacturin establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #10 safest of 29 Other Animal Food Manufacturin employers in North Carolina.

Candor Feedmill (56 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Candor Feedmill
Candor Feedmill (56 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Candor Feedmill has more employees than the Other Animal Food 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
2023 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2020 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2018 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · NC · Eagle Springs

756 Other Animal Food Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 5 employers in Eagle Springs, 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 McDowell & Walker, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atwater Feed Mill 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belstra Milling Company, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zeigler Bros. Inc. 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Tri-State 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Siler City Hatchery 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.B. Rose & Sons, Inc 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roanoke Electric Cooperative 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandhill Turf 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buy Sod - Sandhill 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR John William Carter III 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Candor Growout 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Perrigo : Michigan-Holland (PMH) 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SJSU Union- Starbucks 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1775 North Cape May, NJ 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Flagstone Foods, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Royal American Construction, Inc 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sidari's Italian Foods 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dexter 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blaise Alexander Ford 56 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.