Poultry Processing · Alabama

Johns Soules Foods Valley

Valley, AL · ~531 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Johns Soules Foods Valley runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade B.

Johns Soules Foods Valley: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Poultry Processing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Johns Soules Foods Valley safety composite

Johns Soules Foods Valley scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−1.6

2023→2024

Johns Soules Foods Valley injury rate improved

Johns Soules Foods Valley's TCR fell 1.6 from 3.2 in 2023 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.2 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #24/55
  • PHOTO University of Arkans…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~531 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: University of Arkansas Processing Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Johns Soules Foods Valley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Johns Soules Foods Valley averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Johns Soules Foods Valley TCR series: 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Johns Soules Foods Valley falls in its industry

509 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #24 safest of 55 Poultry Processing employers in Alabama.

Johns Soules Foods Valley (531 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Johns Soules Foods Valley
Johns Soules Foods Valley (531 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Johns Soules Foods Valley has fewer employees than the Poultry Processing 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
2024 1.6 0.3 9 0 0
2023 3.2 1.2 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AL · Valley

509 Poultry Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 14 employers in Valley, 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 University of Arkansas Processing Plant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pendergrass Plant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PILGRIMS MT. PLEASANT WASTE WATER 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PETALUMA - PET1 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE FreightCar Alabama, LLC 531 FTE
STATE-SIZE Neptune Technology Group 530 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aerojet Rocketdyne - Huntsville HQ 532 FTE
STATE-SIZE Region 052 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johns Soules Foods Valley Alabama 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR GFA 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 733 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR 733 258 FTE
NAT-TCR HEXPOL Barberton 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Manor 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gallatin Manor 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR EMI 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Continental Automotive Systems, Inc 531 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salem Leasing Corp. 531 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trulieve Jefferson County 531 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centegra Hospital Woodstock 531 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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