Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing · Texas

Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant

Waco, TX · ~697 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing workplace, earning a grade C.

Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant: 3.0 TCR = 90% of Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant safety composite

Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant: 2.1 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2018

Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.1 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Waco, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #11/24
  • PHOTO Chattanooga Processi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~697 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chattanooga Processing Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Texas employers → · Look up another →

Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 24 Poultry slaughtering, dressing employers in Texas.

Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant (697 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant
Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant (697 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Primary Poultry- Waco TX Plant has more employees than the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and pack 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 Fatalities
2018 3.2 3.1 14 8 0
2017 3.6 3.0 22 4 0
2016 2.1 1.7 9 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · TX · Waco

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 314 employers in Waco, TX · 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 Chattanooga Processing Plant 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Packing Corp 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kilcoy Global Foods North America 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dobson Plant 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Soules Foods, Tyler 697 FTE
STATE-SIZE US TX Houston Satsuma/Firebrick Campus 697 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baylor Scott & White McLane Children's Medical Center 697 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 698 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AUS3 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXWAC1 1,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3Harris AS IAS Waco 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Performance Ledyard - 0680 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Widmer Bros Brewery and Brewpub 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ug2 - 220 Wit 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Tooling & Manufacturing, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE OK0030CV3 697 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luling Plant 697 FTE
NAT-SIZE C.W. Wright Construction Company, LLC 697 FTE
NAT-SIZE Effective Home Care LLC 697 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: 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.