Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers · South Carolina

Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc

Lexington, SC · ~25 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc: 0.4 TCR = 20% of Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc safety composite

Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc held a steady TCR band

Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Lexington, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P99
  • PHOTO Quirch Foods - HQ
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quirch Foods - HQ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc averages 0.4 TCR (20% of the Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc falls in its industry

162 Meats and meat products (excep establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc (25 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc
Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc (25 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Caughman's Meat Plant, Inc has fewer employees than the Meats and meat products (except canned, median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · SC · Lexington

162 Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 136 employers in Lexington, SC · 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 Quirch Foods - HQ 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quirch Foods - Coral Gables 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calvada Sales co. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier Foods - ACME Meat 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Field Services Tech Building (Columbia) 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clemson Operations Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Mill Operations Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Repairs 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Lexington 1,630 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin US5 Lexington SC 1,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin North America US7 838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia 760 FTE
NAT-TCR Casai - the Ups Store Inc 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandSafway Industries LLC - Husky Refinery 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Minneapolis, Mn 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR El Paso Refinery 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cargill Bloomingburg 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sea Cliff Assisted Living 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercer Builders LLC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Pipestone 25 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.