Poultry Processing · Arkansas

Dardanelle Plant

Dardanelle, AR · ~835 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Dardanelle Plant runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dardanelle Plant: 7.7 TCR = 232% of Poultry Processing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dardanelle Plant safety composite

Dardanelle Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2017→2024

Dardanelle Plant injury rate improved

Dardanelle Plant's TCR fell 2.9 from 4.2 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 19.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.2 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=19.8 · 2021=16.3 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Dardanelle, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 232% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #56/69
  • PHOTO Sanderson Farms St. …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 121 inj
  • SIZE ~835 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanderson Farms St. Pauls Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dardanelle Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dardanelle Plant averages 7.7 TCR (232% of the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Dardanelle Plant TCR series: 2017=4.2 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=19.8 · 2021=16.3 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=2 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Dardanelle Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 69 Poultry Processing employers in Arkansas.

Dardanelle Plant (835 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 Dardanelle Plant
Dardanelle Plant (835 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Dardanelle Plant has more employees than the Poultry Processing 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 1.4 1.0 9 1 0
2023 2.0 0.7 9 5 0
2022 8.2 7.2 10 53 0
2021 16.3 14.5 17 113 1
2020 19.8 18.4 17 145 0
2019 3.3 2.4 21 7 0
2018 6.1 2.9 24 24 0
2017 4.2 2.7 14 19 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AR · Dardanelle

509 Poultry Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 14 employers in Dardanelle, AR · 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 Sanderson Farms St. Pauls Processing 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Live Haul 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corydon Plant 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SQUAB PRODUCERS OF CALIFORNIA 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nucor Steel Arkansas 845 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Refrigerated Transport 847 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lowell, AR - JB Hunt Corporate A Marketing 822 FTE
STATE-SIZE Van Buren General Office 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 296 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR 296 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR DARDANELLE NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER, INC. 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terra Renewal Inc 136 FTE
NAT-TCR Sherman Case Rdy Plant 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith Bros Inc 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR WesPak, Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Terrace Assisted Living of North Mankato 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6308 8th Avenue 835 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seffner-Corporate - CORP - #0000 835 FTE
NAT-SIZE NM Plano TX 835 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terumo Medical Corporation 835 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. 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.