Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing · Mississippi

Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant

Morton, MS · ~719 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing workplace, earning a grade B.

Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant: 2.5 TCR = 76% of Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant safety composite

Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant: 2.3 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant's TCR rose 0.4 from 2.3 in 2023 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Morton, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 76% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #13/41
  • PHOTO GC7 Airport Dr, Gold…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~719 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GC7 Airport Dr, Gold Creek Processing, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant averages 2.5 TCR (76% of the Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing BLS benchmark).

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

Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant TCR series: 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 41 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, employers in Mississippi.

Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant (719 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant
Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant (719 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant has more employees than the Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, fr 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 2.7 2.2 21 3 0
2023 2.3 1.6 15 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MS · Morton

509 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 12 employers in Morton, MS · 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 GC7 Airport Dr, Gold Creek Processing, LLC. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Soules Foods Gainesville 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fertilizer Plant 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Processing Plant 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE MG Dyess, Inc 719 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ivey Mechanical Company 720 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10D8106 PHARMA NATIONAL REDISTRIBUTION CENTER 718 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest Debone Plant 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Processing Plant 1,016 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Prepared Plant 770 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods 489 FTE
CITY-NEAR J & J Enterprises, LLC 261 FTE
NAT-TCR M & H Building Specialties 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cinco Ranch Alz 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandSafway Solutions LLC - Luminant Power - Miami Fort Station 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Andrews Construction Services Corp. 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pasco Processing LLC 719 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shearer's Foods Burlington 719 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Physician Services 719 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ralph Lauren Corporation - NC66 Distribution Center 719 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.