Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) · Mississippi

Koch Foods Prepared Plant

Morton, MS · ~770 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koch Foods Prepared Plant runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) workplace, earning a grade D.

Koch Foods Prepared Plant: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koch Foods Prepared Plant safety composite

Koch Foods Prepared Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−2.4

2016→2020

Koch Foods Prepared Plant injury rate improved

Koch Foods Prepared Plant's TCR fell 2.4 from 6.1 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.1 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #27/41
  • PHOTO Primary Poultry - Da…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 166 inj
  • SIZE ~770 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Primary Poultry - Dayton VA Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koch Foods Prepared Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koch Foods Prepared Plant averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS benchmark).

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

Koch Foods Prepared Plant TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Koch Foods Prepared Plant falls in its industry

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, f establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #27 safest of 41 Chickens, processing, fresh, f employers in Mississippi.

Koch Foods Prepared Plant (770 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Prepared Plant
Koch Foods Prepared Plant (770 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Koch Foods Prepared Plant has more employees than the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, can 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
2020 3.7 2.6 33 0 0
2019 3.6 2.6 32 1 0
2018 2.7 1.6 24 1 0
2017 4.1 3.7 28 3 0
2016 6.1 5.3 49 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MS · Morton

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) 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 Primary Poultry - Dayton VA Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dorada Foods Reidsville 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Laurel Processing 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pure Prairie Poultry 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Modine Manufacturing Company - Grenada OEM 763 FTE
STATE-SIZE VT Halter Marine 292 Pascagoula 777 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Gulf Nuclear Station 779 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merit Health River Region 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Processing Plant 1,016 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods 489 FTE
CITY-NEAR J & J Enterprises, LLC 261 FTE
NAT-TCR Fresno 3954 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 91 - Warehouse 1 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HF Physicians Dba HF Private Duty 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chemtron Corporation Plant 1 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bed Rock Inc 770 FTE
NAT-SIZE O.C.Tanner Company 770 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elpohc-015-El Paso Home Care 770 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lionsgate Entertainment- 2700 Colorado 770 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.