Variety meats, edible organs, made from purchased meats · North Carolina

Kinston 2 Packaged

Kinston, NC · ~626 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kinston 2 Packaged runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Variety meats, edible organs, made from purchased meats workplace, earning a grade A.

Kinston 2 Packaged: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Variety meats, edible organs, made from purchased meats BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kinston 2 Packaged safety composite

Kinston 2 Packaged scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

Kinston 2 Packaged: 0.6 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2020

Kinston 2 Packaged's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.6 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Kinston, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Swift Prepared Foods
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~626 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swift Prepared Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kinston 2 Packaged in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kinston 2 Packaged averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Variety meats, edible organs, made from purchased meats BLS benchmark).

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

Kinston 2 Packaged TCR series: 2018=0.6 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Kinston 2 Packaged falls in its industry

613 Variety meats, edible organs, establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 8 Variety meats, edible organs, employers in North Carolina.

Kinston 2 Packaged (626 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kinston 2 Packaged
Kinston 2 Packaged (626 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Kinston 2 Packaged has more employees than the Variety meats, edible organs, made from 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2020 2.5 2.2 17 1 0
2019 1.6 1.6 11 0 0
2018 0.6 0.1 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · NC · Kinston

613 Variety meats, edible organs, made from purchased meats employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Kinston, 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 Swift Prepared Foods 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Soules Foods Inc 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olympia Food Industries, Inc 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caviness Amarillo 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bottomley Evergreens & Farms 626 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1420 LOWE S MID-ATLANTIC RDC 625 FTE
STATE-SIZE WFBMC - Lexington Medical Center 627 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maiden Upholstery Division 624 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caswell Developmental Center 1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Lenoir Health Care 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Lenoir 744 FTE
NAT-TCR Massey Services 31 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Recycling Spartanburg Hwy 29 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Aumund Corporation 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Thompson Industrial Services, LLC, Division 50 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Herr Foods Inc. 20 626 FTE
NAT-SIZE COACH JAX Distribution Center 626 FTE
NAT-SIZE PBI - 27 Waterview (CT05) 626 FTE
NAT-SIZE 135 Adams Ave 626 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.

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

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