Poultry Processing · North Carolina

Dobson Plant

Dobson, NC · ~808 workers · 6 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

Dobson Plant runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade C.

Dobson Plant: 3.0 TCR = 89% of Poultry Processing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dobson Plant safety composite

Dobson Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

−2.7

2019→2024

Dobson Plant injury rate improved

Dobson Plant's TCR fell 2.7 from 4.7 in 2019 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.7 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #20/32
  • PHOTO Century Packing Corp
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 124 inj
  • SIZE ~808 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Century Packing Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dobson Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dobson Plant averages 3.0 TCR (89% of the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Dobson Plant TCR series: 2019=4.7 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Dobson Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 57% 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 #20 safest of 32 Poultry Processing employers in North Carolina.

Dobson Plant (808 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 Dobson Plant
Dobson Plant (808 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Dobson Plant has more employees than the Poultry Processing 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 2.0 0.7 14 0 0
2023 2.2 1.4 15 1 0
2022 2.3 1.5 18 0 0
2021 3.3 2.9 24 4 0
2020 3.1 1.6 22 7 0
2019 4.7 2.5 31 17 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · NC · Dobson

509 Poultry Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 9 employers in Dobson, 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 Century Packing Corp 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kilcoy Global Foods North America 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danville Plant 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE DFP Clayton 808 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASMO GNC 808 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC Regional Headquarters (NCRH) 808 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6935-CHARLOTTE REGIONAL VISITORS AUTHORITY 808 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dobson processing plant 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Surry 698 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carolina Carports, Inc. - NC Headquarters 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Surry-Yadkin Electric Membership Corporation 70 FTE
NAT-TCR B & M Precision 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison Park Vol. Fire Co. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Old Trail Road Facility 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cambria Plant 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corporation 808 FTE
NAT-SIZE SYRACUSE-NY97 808 FTE
NAT-SIZE OH_Columbus_1015 Olentangy River Rd._TWCMOH38 808 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fidelity Technologies Corporation 808 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. 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.