Turkeys, slaughtering and dressing · Missouri

Carthage Plant

Carthage, MO · ~825 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Carthage Plant runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Turkeys, slaughtering and dressing workplace, earning a grade B.

Carthage Plant: 2.4 TCR = 71% of Turkeys, slaughtering and dressing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carthage Plant safety composite

Carthage Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 6%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 6% 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: 2.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2020

Carthage Plant's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.0 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Carthage, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 71% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #3/12
  • PHOTO Morton Processing Pl…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~825 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morton Processing Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carthage Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carthage Plant averages 2.4 TCR (71% of the Turkeys, slaughtering and dressing BLS benchmark).

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

Carthage Plant TCR series: 2016=2 · 2020=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Carthage Plant falls in its industry

509 Turkeys, slaughtering and dres establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 12 Turkeys, slaughtering and dres employers in Missouri.

Carthage Plant (825 employees, TCR 2.4) 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
Carthage Plant (825 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Carthage Plant has more employees than the Turkeys, slaughtering and dressing 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
2020 2.7 1.9 18 8 1
2016 2.0 1.1 16 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MO · Carthage

509 Turkeys, slaughtering and dressing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 58 employers in Carthage, MO · 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 Morton Processing Plant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laurel processing plant 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johns Soules Foods Valley 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR University of Arkansas Processing Plant 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE U.S. Army Ft Leonard Wood Garrison 826 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hubbell Power System - Centralia 827 FTE
STATE-SIZE La-Z-Boy-Midwest-Neosho 823 FTE
STATE-SIZE MO_St. Ann_750 NW Plaza_call ctr_90304000 828 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schreiber Foods Fairview Plant 702 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairview Plant 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carthage Spring #0001 519 FTE
CITY-NEAR Butterball LLC 498 FTE
NAT-TCR Carriage House 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Many Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR UNIT855 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Armstrong Transportation & Trailers, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ripley 825 FTE
NAT-SIZE Young Living Essential Oils - GHQ 825 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Special School District 825 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sealed Air 825 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: 2020, 2016. 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.