Meat products, dog and cat, pet food, canning, made from purchased carcasses · North Carolina

Highland

Kernersville, NC · ~157 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highland runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meat products, dog and cat, pet food, canning, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Highland: 9.8 TCR = 252% of Meat products, dog and cat, pet food, canning, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highland safety composite

Highland scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Highland: 3.9 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 15.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2017

Highland's TCR rose 11.8 from 3.9 in 2016 to 15.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Kernersville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 252% of ind

  • DART 12.2 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Barrett Petfood Inno…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~157 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highland averages 9.8 TCR (252% of the Meat products, dog and cat, pet food, canning, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Highland TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=15.7 · BLS 3.9

Where Highland falls in its industry

302 Meat products, dog and cat, pe establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Meat products, dog and cat, pe employers in North Carolina.

Highland (157 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Highland
Highland (157 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Highland has more employees than the Meat products, dog and cat, pet food, ca median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2017 15.7 12.2 9 0 0
2016 3.9 3.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · NC · Kernersville

302 Meat products, dog and cat, pet food, canning, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 93 employers in Kernersville, NC · 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 Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evergood Sausage Co 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newport 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE JPS Composite Materials Corporation 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wm. T. Burnett & Co., Nonwovens Division - Statesville 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giles Chemical Repack Facility 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gate Precast Company 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-GRNB 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
CITY-NEAR 274 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Kernersville 782 FTE
NAT-TCR Ricky's 39th Street 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR RAM Industries, LLC 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 216 ABC Supply Co., Inc 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 3613 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverport 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Topeka Burrito Plant 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S Farmingdale, Ny 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trig's Rhinelander 157 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: 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.