Hot dogs, poultry, manufacturing · Mississippi

Koch Foods

Morton, MS · ~489 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koch Foods runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hot dogs, poultry, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Koch Foods: 3.8 TCR = 116% of Hot dogs, poultry, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koch Foods safety composite

Koch Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−1.4

2019→2024

Koch Foods injury rate improved

Koch Foods's TCR fell 1.4 from 4.2 in 2019 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.2 · 2020=4.5 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Morton, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 116% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #21/41
  • PHOTO Willmar Ave Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~489 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Willmar Ave Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koch Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koch Foods averages 3.8 TCR (116% of the Hot dogs, poultry, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Koch Foods TCR series: 2019=4.2 · 2020=4.5 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Koch Foods falls in its industry

509 Hot dogs, poultry, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #21 safest of 41 Hot dogs, poultry, manufacturi employers in Mississippi.

Koch Foods (489 employees, TCR 3.8) 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
Koch Foods (489 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Koch Foods has fewer employees than the Hot dogs, poultry, manufacturing median and a higher 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 2.8 1.5 21 7 0
2020 4.5 3.0 9 0 0
2019 4.2 4.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MS · Morton

509 Hot dogs, poultry, manufacturing 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 Willmar Ave Plant 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilgrims Pride Corp 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers Pride Inc Plant 3 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brakebush Brothers, Inc. 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Masonite International 487 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harrah's Gulf Coast 491 FTE
STATE-SIZE Volvo Logistics CDC Byhalia 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABB Senatobia 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Processing Plant 1,016 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Prepared Plant 770 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR J & J Enterprises, LLC 261 FTE
NAT-TCR BlueScope Coated Products 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR J.F. Burns Machine Co., Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CHF Industries, Inc. - Distribution Facility 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Peterson Mechanical Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cargill Protein 489 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kasai North America 489 FTE
NAT-SIZE 876 Web1000 489 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huck International, Inc 489 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, 2020, 2019. 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.