Processed poultry manufacturing · Tennessee

Chattanooga Processing Plant

Chattanooga, TN · ~490 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chattanooga Processing Plant runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Processed poultry manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Chattanooga Processing Plant: 3.0 TCR = 90% of Processed poultry manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chattanooga Processing Plant safety composite

Chattanooga Processing Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2023→2024

Chattanooga Processing Plant injury rate improved

Chattanooga Processing Plant's TCR fell 1.5 from 3.8 in 2023 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.8 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #5/12
  • PHOTO Primary Poultry- Wac…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~490 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chattanooga Processing Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chattanooga Processing Plant averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the Processed poultry manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chattanooga Processing Plant TCR series: 2023=3.8 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Chattanooga Processing Plant falls in its industry

509 Processed poultry manufacturin establishments

Safer than 57% 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 #5 safest of 12 Processed poultry manufacturin employers in Tennessee.

Chattanooga Processing Plant (490 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Processing Plant
Chattanooga Processing Plant (490 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Chattanooga Processing Plant has fewer employees than the Processed poultry manufacturing 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 2.2 0.2 3 8 0
2023 3.8 1.3 9 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · TN · Chattanooga

509 Processed poultry manufacturing 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 Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dothan Plant 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilgrim's Poultry Processing 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Packing Corp 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nashville TN FXFE-NAS 490 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan Olson 491 FTE
STATE-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain Cummins MDC2 491 FTE
STATE-SIZE UT Medical Group DBA University Clinical Health 492 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 Van Vreede's TV & Appliance 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Carolina Inn 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bliss Carwash LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheehan Brothers Vending Service Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE USA Berry Farms 490 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casnr - San Ramon 490 FTE
NAT-SIZE Federal Signal Corp (University Park) 490 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accurate Home Care, LLC 490 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.