Poultry Processing · Mississippi

Carthage Plant (Choctaw)

Carthage, MS · ~1,534 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carthage Plant (Choctaw) runs at 281% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade F.

Carthage Plant (Choctaw): 9.3 TCR = 281% of Poultry Processing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carthage Plant (Choctaw) safety composite

Carthage Plant (Choctaw) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Carthage Plant (Choctaw): 3.1 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 22.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.34× in 2023

Carthage Plant (Choctaw)'s TCR rose 0.5 from 3.1 in 2017 to 3.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 22.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Carthage, MS ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 281% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #40/41
  • PHOTO Pitman Farms, Moroni…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 158 inj
  • SIZE ~1,534 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pitman Farms, Moroni Turkey Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carthage Plant (Choctaw) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carthage Plant (Choctaw) averages 9.3 TCR (281% of the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Carthage Plant (Choctaw) TCR series: 2017=3.1 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=11.4 · 2021=20.8 · 2022=22.1 · 2023=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Carthage Plant (Choctaw) falls in its industry

509 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 41 Poultry Processing employers in Mississippi.

Carthage Plant (Choctaw) (1,534 employees, TCR 9.3) 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 Carthage Plant (Choctaw)
Carthage Plant (Choctaw) (1,534 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Carthage Plant (Choctaw) has more employees than the Poultry Processing median and a higher 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 3.6 3.2 31 19 0
2022 22.1 21.3 27 284 0
2021 20.8 20.1 20 251 0
2020 11.4 11.2 12 135 0
2019 1.5 0.7 17 5 0
2018 2.4 1.8 25 9 0
2017 3.1 1.8 26 17 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MS · Carthage

509 Poultry Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 18 employers in Carthage, MS · 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 Pitman Farms, Moroni Turkey Processing 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gemstone Foods 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prestage Foods 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monroe Plant 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CHEVRON PASCAGOULA REFINERY 1,539 FTE
STATE-SIZE Total Trans of MS LLC 1,516 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pascagoula Refinery 1,566 FTE
STATE-SIZE Island View Casino Resort 1,566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pearl River Foods LLC 347 FTE
CITY-NEAR 305 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 305 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trend Healthcare and Rehabilitation of Carthage 134 FTE
NAT-TCR 62nd Court 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR San Diego South 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Guilford College 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Plus - 3702 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Division 91 University of Rochester 1,534 FTE
NAT-SIZE SFE - Corporate 1,535 FTE
NAT-SIZE CO Central Office 1,533 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palms Casino Resort 1,533 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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