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

Morton Processing Plant

Name: Morton Processing Plant Workplace Safety Data
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Morton, MS · ~1,016 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Morton Processing Plant runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) workplace, earning a grade B.

Morton Processing Plant: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Morton Processing Plant safety composite

Morton Processing Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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).

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.51 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%).

Morton Processing Plant held a steady TCR band

Morton Processing Plant's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.1 in 2018 to 2.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.1 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

DART 1.5 DART
RANK #11/41
PHOTO Carthage Plant
BOOK 6y book
INJ 106 inj
SIZE ~1,016 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carthage Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Morton Processing Plant averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS benchmark).

Morton Processing Plant TCR series: 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Morton Processing Plant falls in its industry

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, f establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 41 Chickens, processing, fresh, f employers in Mississippi.

Morton Processing Plant (1,016 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Morton Processing Plant has more employees than the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, can 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
2023	2.4	1.5	14	8
2022	3.1	1.6	17	9
2021	2.6	2.0	18	5
2020	2.4	1.5	22	6
2019	1.6	1.2	17	3
2018	2.1	1.4	18	7

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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Carthage Plant	CARTHAGE, MO	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Johns Soules Foods Valley	VALLEY, AL	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	University of Arkansas Processing Plant	FAYETTEVILLE, AR	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pendergrass Plant	PENDERGRASS, GA	2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Anderson Regional Medical Center	MERIDIAN	1,004 FTE
STATE-SIZE	6011	BROOKHAVEN	1,032 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle	COLUMMBUS	1,042 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ripley Facility	RIPLEY	1,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Koch Foods Prepared Plant	Morton	770 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant	Morton	719 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Koch Foods	Morton	489 FTE
CITY-NEAR	J & J Enterprises, LLC	Morton	261 FTE
NAT-TCR	Versa Designed Surfaces	New Albany, IN	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bivar	Irvine, CA	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lee-Smith	Chattanooga, TN	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Triangle Leasing Corp	Toledo, OH	2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	CFC1	Clayton, IN	1,016 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Northeast Arc	Danvers, MA	1,016 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Liquid Environmental Solutions of Texas, LLC	Irving, TX	1,016 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Maple Grove Hospital	Maple Grove, MN	1,016 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.