Rendering animals (carrion) for feed · Alabama

Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food

Russellville, AL · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food runs at 8% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Rendering animals (carrion) for feed workplace, earning a grade A.

Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food: 0.3 TCR = 8% of Rendering animals (carrion) for feed BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food safety composite

Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food: 0.0 → 0.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.0 in 2023 to 0.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Russellville, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 8% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK P99
  • PHOTO Mendota Agri Products
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mendota Agri Products (0.3 TCR gap)

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Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food averages 0.3 TCR (8% of the Rendering animals (carrion) for feed BLS benchmark).

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

Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food falls in its industry

151 Rendering animals (carrion) fo establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food (44 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 050100150 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food
Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food (44 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food has fewer employees than the Rendering animals (carrion) for feed median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 0.5 0.3 1 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · AL · Russellville

151 Rendering animals (carrion) for feed employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 35 employers in Russellville, 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 Mendota Agri Products 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mahoney Environmental Indy 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR darling ingredients inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaluzny Bros.,Inc. 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE SIMCO Construction, Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&C Contractors LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asphalt Services, Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at Olin Chlor Alkali Products McIntosh AL 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrims Russellville Complex 1,094 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrims Pride - Central Processing 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR Innovative Hearth Products 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Homes Russellville 319 FTE
NAT-TCR Walkcon 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Headquarters Bldg D 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Barcelona Equipment Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson and Johnson Corporate New Brunswick 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Mandeville 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE High Plains Steel Services, LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martin Roofing Company Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Bradenton Gardens 44 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.