Fresh meats merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Empire Packing Company LP

Memphis, TN · ~218 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Packing Company LP runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fresh meats merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Empire Packing Company LP: 2.2 TCR = 101% of Fresh meats merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Packing Company LP safety composite

Empire Packing Company LP scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2017→2024

Empire Packing Company LP injury rate improved

Empire Packing Company LP's TCR fell 0.7 from 3.6 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=0.3 · 2020=0.4 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.2 · 101% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Dutch Creek Foods
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~218 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dutch Creek Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Packing Company LP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Packing Company LP averages 2.2 TCR (101% of the Fresh meats merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Packing Company LP TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=0.3 · 2020=0.4 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=3 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Empire Packing Company LP falls in its industry

162 Fresh meats merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Fresh meats merchant wholesale employers in Tennessee.

Empire Packing Company LP (218 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Empire Packing Company LP
Empire Packing Company LP (218 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Empire Packing Company LP has more employees than the Fresh meats merchant wholesalers 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 2.9 1.4 6 0 0
2023 2.7 2.7 5 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 6 0 0
2021 2.3 1.9 4 1 0
2020 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2019 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 12 0 0
2017 3.6 2.7 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · TN · Memphis

162 Fresh meats merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, 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 Dutch Creek Foods 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix Logistics Cold Storage 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm Boy Meats 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MD-BALTI01-Baltimore - MD - Halperns 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CDE Lightband 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE kordsa chattanooga 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACA-Tennessee 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dickson_EX 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Russellville Park 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fiber Optic Solutions LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mara Technologies USA Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Linx, Lllp 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blue Ridge Mountain Electric Membership 218 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 39006 218 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bradford Health Services 218 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ridgefield Recreation Center 218 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.