Chickens, slaughtering and dressing · Alabama

KOch Foods Ashland

Name: KOch Foods Ashland Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ashland, AL · ~375 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

KOch Foods Ashland runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chickens, slaughtering and dressing workplace, earning a grade C.

KOch Foods Ashland: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KOch Foods Ashland safety composite

KOch Foods Ashland scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 6%), 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).

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 6% 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

KOch Foods Ashland: 3.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.2× in 2019

KOch Foods Ashland's TCR rose 0.6 from 3.0 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Ashland, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

DART 0.7 DART
RANK #35/55
PHOTO Melrose Plant
BOOK 4y book
INJ 52 inj
SIZE ~375 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Melrose Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.4
Melrose Plant

3.4
PILGRIMS MT PL

3.4
House of Raefo

3.4
CP-Carrollton,

3.3

What this shows KOch Foods Ashland averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS benchmark).

KOch Foods Ashland TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where KOch Foods Ashland falls in its industry

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dre establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 55 Chickens, slaughtering and dre employers in Alabama.

KOch Foods Ashland (375 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

KOch Foods Ashland has fewer employees than the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing 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
2019	3.6	0.7	14	2	0
2018	3.6	2.6	14	0	0
2017	3.2	1.6	12	0	1
2016	3.0	1.8	12	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AL · Ashland

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dressing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 6 employers in Ashland, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Melrose Plant	MELROSE, MN	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PILGRIMS MT PLEASANT WEST PLANT	MT. PLEASANT, TX	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	House of Raeford Farms, Inc.	TEACHEY, NC	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CP-Carrollton, GA	CARROLLTON, GA	3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Corporate Office	VESTAVIA	375 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gemstone Foods Plant 2-01	DECATUR	376 FTE
STATE-SIZE	853	MOBILE	376 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 1212	SARALAND	374 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Wellborn Cabinet	Ashland	1,346 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ashland Processing	Ashland	454 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tru Cabinetry, LLC.	Ashland	286 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Integrity Cabinets, LLC. Lineville	Ashland	87 FTE
NAT-TCR	CP Technologies Company	Blacklick, OH	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hilltop Health Services Corporation	Grand Junction, CO	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Faf Iad	Sterling, VA	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Showplace Landscape Services	Sherwood, OR	3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Prairie St. John's	Fargo, ND	375 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MaritzCX Research LLC - Maumee	Maumee, OH	375 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Miele, Inc.	Princeton, NJ	375 FTE
NAT-SIZE	GDIT Chesapeake Crossways Blvd	Chesapeake, VA	375 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: 2019, 2018, 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.