Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing · Alabama

Golden Rod Boilers

Cullman, AL · ~291 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Golden Rod Boilers runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing workplace, earning a grade C.

Golden Rod Boilers: 3.2 TCR = 96% of Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Golden Rod Boilers safety composite

Golden Rod Boilers scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

2018→2021

Golden Rod Boilers injury rate improved

Golden Rod Boilers's TCR fell 2.7 from 4.3 in 2018 to 1.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.3 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Cullman, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 96% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #32/55
  • PHOTO Barron Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~291 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barron Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Golden Rod Boilers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Golden Rod Boilers averages 3.2 TCR (96% of the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Golden Rod Boilers TCR series: 2018=4.3 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Golden Rod Boilers falls in its industry

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 55 Poultry slaughtering, dressing employers in Alabama.

Golden Rod Boilers (291 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 Golden Rod Boilers
Golden Rod Boilers (291 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Golden Rod Boilers has fewer employees than the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and pack 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
2021 1.6 0.8 4 0 0
2020 3.6 2.4 12 0 0
2018 4.3 2.2 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AL · Cullman

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 98 employers in Cullman, 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 Barron Plant 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR EAST PLANT 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilgrims Moorefield Feed Mill 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR George's Springdale Processing Plant 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cavalier 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE IHP RV 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE Autocar Trucks Birmingham 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 740 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cullman 1,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6006 1,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6006 1,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rehau Auto Cullman 1,008 FTE
NAT-TCR Main Building 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Transport Corporation - Knoxville 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross Casting & Innovation LLC 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wolverine Worldwide - Waltham Corporate Office 291 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cannon School 291 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dominium Home Office 291 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gutridge 291 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: 2021, 2020, 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.