Rendering plants · Georgia

Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant

Name: Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Cornelia, GA · ~43 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Rendering plants workplace, earning a grade B.

Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant: 2.1 TCR = 63% of Rendering plants BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant safety composite

Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers
DART rate: D 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant: 2.1 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2024

Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant's TCR rose 2.1 from 2.1 in 2019 to 4.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Cornelia, GA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

DART 4.2 DART
RANK #1/12
PHOTO PC Plant
BOOK 6y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PC Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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2.1
PC Plant

2.1
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2.1

What this shows Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant averages 2.1 TCR (63% of the Rendering plants BLS benchmark).

Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant TCR series: 2019=2.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant falls in its industry

151 Rendering plants establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 12 Rendering plants employers in Georgia.

Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant (43 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant has fewer employees than the Rendering plants median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2024	4.2	4.2	2
2023	2.1	2.1	1
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2021	4.1	2.0	2
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	2.1	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · GA · Cornelia

151 Rendering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 26 employers in Cornelia, GA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	PC Plant	LIVINGSTON, CA	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Farmerville PC Plant	FARMERVILLE, LA	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Modena	MODENA, PA	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Keystone Rendering	FREDERICKSBURG, PA	2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Vickers Farms	NASHVILLE	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Stephens County Hatchery	EASTONOLLEE	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	B.C.T. Gin Co.,Inc.	QUITMAN	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Plant McIntosh (Steam)	ATLANTA	43 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Plant	Cornelia	1,574 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cornelia Plant	Cornelia	1,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ethicon Cornelia	Cornelia	699 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1403	Cornelia	325 FTE
NAT-TCR	ZEKS Compressed Air Solutions	West Chester, PA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kem Krest - Bristol	Bristol, IN	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Main Office	Omaha, NE	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Facilities Contracting, Inc.	Littleton, CO	2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Wyoming Machine Inc	Stacy, MN	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Brown Sand INC	Lathrop, CA	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Joiner Sheet Metal & Roofing Inc	Highland, IL	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Haven Manufacturing LLC	Grand Haven, MI	43 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.