Beef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants · North Carolina

JBS Retail Ready

Lenoir, NC · ~199 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

JBS Retail Ready runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade D.

JBS Retail Ready: 5.1 TCR = 153% of Beef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JBS Retail Ready safety composite

JBS Retail Ready scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 53%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

−0.9

2016→2020

JBS Retail Ready injury rate improved

JBS Retail Ready's TCR fell 0.9 from 6.9 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.9 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=4.0 · 2020=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Lenoir, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 153% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Gold Canyon Meats- C…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~199 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gold Canyon Meats- Colorado (0.0 TCR gap)

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JBS Retail Ready in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JBS Retail Ready averages 5.1 TCR (153% of the Beef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

JBS Retail Ready TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=4 · 2020=6 · BLS 3.3

Where JBS Retail Ready falls in its industry

212 Beef carcasses, half carcasses establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Beef carcasses, half carcasses employers in North Carolina.

JBS Retail Ready (199 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate JBS Retail Ready
JBS Retail Ready (199 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

JBS Retail Ready has fewer employees than the Beef carcasses, half carcasses, primal a median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2020 6.0 2.7 8 3 0
2019 4.0 2.5 7 1 0
2018 3.3 2.3 7 3 0
2016 6.9 6.9 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · NC · Lenoir

212 Beef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Lenoir, 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 Gold Canyon Meats- Colorado 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indiana Packers Corp. Frankfort Plant 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Macomb MI 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Meat Solutions 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Works 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lotus Bakeries US Manufacturing LLC 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essentra HPC Greensboro 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE INX International Ink Co. (6400) 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caldwell Memorial Hospital 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR HHG Lenoir Upholstery Plant 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Exela Pharma Sciences, LLC. 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caldwell County Government 451 FTE
NAT-TCR CDTi 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer Store 162 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR R-114 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Illinois Construction 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE MMP - 100 Brick Hill 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Methodist Communities - Collingswood 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oasis Health and Rehab Center 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE AST Little Axe Health Clinic 199 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.