Processed meats manufacturing · Tennessee

George's Prepared Foods

Name: George's Prepared Foods Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Caryville, TN · ~283 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

George's Prepared Foods runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

George's Prepared Foods: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

George's Prepared Foods safety composite

George's Prepared Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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).

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers
DART rate: C 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

George's Prepared Foods: 1.1 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2020

George's Prepared Foods's TCR rose 2.4 from 1.1 in 2018 to 3.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Caryville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

DART 2.1 DART
RANK #2/17
PHOTO Branding Iron Holdings
BOOK 3y book
INJ 20 inj
SIZE ~283 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Branding Iron Holdings (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.4
Branding Iron

2.4
Plumrose USA,

2.4
Dan's Prize Br

2.4
Kraft Heinz Co

2.4

What this shows George's Prepared Foods averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

George's Prepared Foods TCR series: 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where George's Prepared Foods falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade B

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 17 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

George's Prepared Foods (283 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

George's Prepared Foods has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2020	3.5	2.1	10
2019	2.6	1.5	7
2018	1.1	1.1	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · TN · Caryville

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 6 employers in Caryville, TN · 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	Branding Iron Holdings	SAUK RAPIDS, MN	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1	COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dan's Prize Browerville	BROWERVILLE, MN	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kraft Heinz Columbia	COLUMBIA, MO	2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Hendersonville Main Office	HENDERSONVILLE	283 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 268	SAVANNAH	283 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DPR Construction - Nashville	NASHVILLE	284 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Industrial Painting Ltd., Inc.	BRIGHTON	282 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Campos Foods	Caryville	289 FTE
CITY-NEAR	GC15 Caryville, Gold Creek Foods LLC,	Caryville	132 FTE
CITY-NEAR	5069_11670	Caryville	83 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Telos Global, LLC	Caryville	72 FTE
NAT-TCR	Cambridge	Cambridge, MD	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Jantec, Inc.	Las Vegas, NV	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	MSG Holdings	Frisco, TX	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wallace International Trucks Inc	Ft Myers, FL	2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Meijer Store 239	Oswego, IL	283 FTE
NAT-SIZE	White-Rodgers	Saint Louis, MO	283 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Meijer Store 134	Indianapolis, IN	283 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Astro Pak Corporation	Costa Mesa, CA	283 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, 2019, 2018. 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.