Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing · Tennessee

Chattanooga Debone Plant

Chattanooga, TN · ~729 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chattanooga Debone Plant runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing workplace, earning a grade D.

Chattanooga Debone Plant: 4.4 TCR = 133% of Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chattanooga Debone Plant safety composite

Chattanooga Debone Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Chattanooga Debone Plant: 2.1 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Chattanooga Debone Plant's TCR rose 4.5 from 2.1 in 2023 to 6.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 133% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO Kill Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~729 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kill Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chattanooga Debone Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chattanooga Debone Plant averages 4.4 TCR (133% 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

Chattanooga Debone Plant TCR series: 2023=2.1 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Chattanooga Debone Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 12 Poultry slaughtering, dressing employers in Tennessee.

Chattanooga Debone Plant (729 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Chattanooga Debone Plant
Chattanooga Debone Plant (729 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Chattanooga Debone Plant has more employees than the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and pack 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
2024 6.6 2.2 19 29 0
2023 2.1 0.5 4 12 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · TN · Chattanooga

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, TN · 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 Kill Plant 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ambassador Sanitation Management, LLC @ Harrison Poultry 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR OKF Albertville Plant 1 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ambassador Sanitation Management, LLC @ Fieldale Farms Corporation - Murrayville 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Team Technologies, Inc. Morristown, TN 729 FTE
STATE-SIZE PARKS AND RECREATION 730 FTE
STATE-SIZE Philips North America: Global Business Services 732 FTE
STATE-SIZE Howmet - Morristown 724 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Mipon - Pontiac 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Vinyl Kraft Acquisition 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft Gratiot 10170 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ideal Consolidated, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Farbest Foods Huntingburg 729 FTE
NAT-SIZE I I Stanley Co., Inc. 729 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rally Credit Union 729 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Refining LP 729 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. 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.