Poultry Processing · Alabama

Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02

Decatur, AL · ~119 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02 runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade C.

Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02: 1.9 TCR = 88% of Poultry Processing BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02 safety composite

Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2020

Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424440 · Decatur, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Sea Breeze Food Serv…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sea Breeze Food Service, INC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02 averages 1.9 TCR (88% of the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0.8 · 2020=5 · BLS 2.2

Where Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02 falls in its industry

46 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Poultry Processing employers in Alabama.

Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02 (119 employees, TCR 1.9) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 5.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02
Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02 (119 employees, TCR 1.9) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02 has more employees than the Poultry Processing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2020 5.0 2.5 2 0 0
2017 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424440 · AL · Decatur

46 Poultry Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 239 employers in Decatur, AL · 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 Sea Breeze Food Service, INC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farbest Farms 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelly's Foods Concepts - Georgia 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pierce Egg Company 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Transmission - Protection and Control Field Services 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE MSE Building Company, Inc. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buffalo Rock Montgomery 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE KW Plastics of Troy 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain - Decatur 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur processing plant 885 FTE
CITY-NEAR ULA-Decatur 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Fresh Plant 671 FTE
NAT-TCR Columbus McKinnon Wadesboro Operations 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Apw Knox Seeman Warehouse, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gaco-Wi (Bp) 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6396-Sprenger Health Care of Massillon 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2636-ARIZONA.OFFSITE 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palm Center 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Las Palomas Center 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Genacross Toledo Campus 119 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: 2020, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.