Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing · North Carolina

Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant

Morganton, NC · ~975 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing workplace, earning a grade A.

Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant safety composite

Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant held a steady TCR band

Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.5 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.5 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Morganton, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #12/32
  • PHOTO Perry Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~975 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Perry Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant TCR series: 2022=1.5 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing establishments

Safer than 86% 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 #12 safest of 32 Poultry slaughtering, dressing employers in North Carolina.

Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant (975 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant
Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant (975 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant has more employees than the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and pack 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
2024 1.9 1.9 9 0 0
2023 1.4 0.8 12 1 0
2022 1.5 0.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · NC · Morganton

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 106 employers in Morganton, 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 Perry Plant 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lewiston Plant 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR To- Ricos 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alabama Plant 1 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE INT-WINSTON-SALEM 975 FTE
STATE-SIZE FSC II, LLC dba Fred Smith Company 974 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC 974 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0960 974 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEX-BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL 3,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals, Inc. 1,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0090-BRHC Hospitals 1,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Broughton Hospital 1,198 FTE
NAT-TCR Schuster Ready Mix, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DLG International 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sikes Brothers Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Redmond School District 975 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Escondido 975 FTE
NAT-SIZE AIRES, LLC-all 975 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honeywell Torrance 975 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.