Chickens, slaughtering and dressing · Alabama

Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant

Gadsden, AL · ~1,247 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chickens, slaughtering and dressing workplace, earning a grade A.

Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant safety composite

Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−0.7

2022→2024

Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant injury rate improved

Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant's TCR fell 0.7 from 1.2 in 2022 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.2 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Gadsden, AL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #2/55
  • PHOTO GC4 Memorial Park, G…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~1,247 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GC4 Memorial Park, Gold Creek Processing, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS benchmark).

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

Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant TCR series: 2022=1.2 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant falls in its industry

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dre establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #2 safest of 55 Chickens, slaughtering and dre employers in Alabama.

Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant (1,247 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Gadsden Processing Plant
Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant (1,247 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant has more 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
2024 0.4 0.4 5 0 0
2023 0.4 0.3 5 0 0
2022 1.2 0.8 9 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AL · Gadsden

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dressing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 82 employers in Gadsden, 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 GC4 Memorial Park, Gold Creek Processing, LLC. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hain Pure Protein Liverpool 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Case Farms Corporate Office 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Case Farms Processing 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Baptist Medical Center East 1,244 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Robins & Morton Group 1,238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maples Industries 1,256 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kamtek Inc. 1,235 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Gadsden Alabama 1,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gadsden Regional Medical Center 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Gadsden Plant 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverview Regional Medical Center 763 FTE
NAT-TCR Milestone Greensboro GP LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sierra Vista Child & Family Services 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Vadnais Heights 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ryan Fireprotection of Ohio, LLC dba Cincinnati Dayton Fire Protection 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Location 40017 1,247 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleveland-Cliffs Butler Works 1,247 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Deere Horicon Works 1,248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office - Lendlease Americas Inc. 1,246 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.