Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked · North Carolina

Prestage Foods

St. Pauls, NC · ~382 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prestage Foods runs at 286% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked workplace, earning a grade F.

Prestage Foods: 9.4 TCR = 286% of Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prestage Foods safety composite

Prestage Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Prestage Foods: 2.8 → 16.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.71× in 2021

Prestage Foods's TCR rose 13.3 from 2.8 in 2016 to 16.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · St. Pauls, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 286% of ind

  • DART 16.1 DART
  • RANK #29/32
  • PHOTO Green Forest Par-Fry…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~382 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Green Forest Par-Fry Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Prestage Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prestage Foods averages 9.4 TCR (286% of the Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked BLS benchmark).

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

Prestage Foods TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2021=16.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Prestage Foods falls in its industry

509 Turkeys, processing, fresh, fr establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 32 Turkeys, processing, fresh, fr employers in North Carolina.

Prestage Foods (382 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 Prestage Foods
Prestage Foods (382 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Prestage Foods has fewer employees than the Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, cann 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
2021 16.1 16.1 14 50 0
2016 2.8 1.4 6 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · NC · St. Pauls

509 Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 9 employers in St. Pauls, NC · 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 Green Forest Par-Fry Plant 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carthage Plant (Choctaw) 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waldron Plant 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pitman Farms, Moroni Turkey Processing 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Burlington Raeford Plant 382 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hickory Chair 382 FTE
STATE-SIZE WHSE 31 382 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1379 382 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms St. Pauls Processing 1,145 FTE
CITY-NEAR PBV-St. Pauls 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watts Water Technologies 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watts Regulator Co. (Mueller Steam Specialty) 169 FTE
NAT-TCR Altercare Integrated Health Systems 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Adventist Home Care Services - Home Assistance 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Water Department 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR FAL 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Munch Supply 382 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regency Janitorial Service, Inc. 382 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Alternative Living Group, Inc. 382 FTE
NAT-SIZE AK Steel - Mansfield Works 382 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: 2021, 2016. 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.