Processed poultry manufacturing · Tennessee

Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims

Chattanooga, TN · ~303 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Processed poultry manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims: 2.3 TCR = 70% of Processed poultry manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims safety composite

Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims held a steady TCR band

Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.1 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.1 · 2019=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 70% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #4/12
  • PHOTO OKF Risk Management
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~303 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OKF Risk Management (0.0 TCR gap)

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Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims averages 2.3 TCR (70% of the Processed poultry manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2019=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims falls in its industry

509 Processed poultry manufacturin establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 12 Processed poultry manufacturin employers in Tennessee.

Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims (303 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims
Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims (303 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Processing Plant Poultry / Kill -Pilgrims has fewer employees than the Processed poultry manufacturing 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
2019 2.5 1.8 7 0 0
2016 2.1 1.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · TN · Chattanooga

509 Processed poultry manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, TN · 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 OKF Risk Management 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koch Foods Debone 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cornelia Plant 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millsboro Processing 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3659 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE TNNAS175 ASCENSION SAINT THOMAS RIVER PARK HOSP 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Tennessee Regional Health System - Lawrenceburg 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smokey Mountain Sportservice, Inc 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR MilliporeSigma - DEKALB 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JFK International Airport - Delta 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mountaineer Plant 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Volcom LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lodi DC 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elite Spice: Montevideo 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ascend Performance Materials 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Middleburg Legacy Place 303 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: 2019, 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.