Poultry Processing · Kentucky

Robards Plant

Robards, KY · ~1,260 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Robards Plant runs at 247% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade F.

Robards Plant: 8.1 TCR = 247% of Poultry Processing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Robards Plant safety composite

Robards Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 38% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 6% 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%).

Robards Plant held a steady TCR band

Robards Plant's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.8 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 23.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.8 · 2018=4.0 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=11.6 · 2021=13.2 · 2022=23.4 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Robards, KY ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 247% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Pine Bluff Jeff Pkwy…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 232 inj
  • SIZE ~1,260 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pine Bluff Jeff Pkwy Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Robards Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Robards Plant averages 8.1 TCR (247% of the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Robards Plant TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=4 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=11.6 · 2021=13.2 · 2022=23.4 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Robards Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Poultry Processing employers in Kentucky.

Robards Plant (1,260 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 Robards Plant
Robards Plant (1,260 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Robards Plant has more employees than the Poultry Processing 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
2024 2.5 2.0 20 9 0
2023 4.3 2.9 32 11 0
2022 23.4 22.1 20 192 0
2021 13.2 12.5 29 130 0
2020 11.6 10.7 33 109 1
2019 3.3 2.4 29 13 0
2018 4.0 3.0 39 14 0
2017 2.8 2.2 30 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · KY · Robards

509 Poultry Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 13 employers in Robards, KY · 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 Pine Bluff Jeff Pkwy Plant 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blountsville Plant 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Little Rock Custom Craft Poultry 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE BGKY Henkel Corporation 1,256 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital 1,264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital 1,282 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Claire HealthCare 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Century Aluminum Sebree LLC 578 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4-Star Distribution Center 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sebree Station 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unbridled 139 FTE
NAT-TCR Bear Hollow Farms 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Service Center 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1009 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pyrites 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Forest MS Complex 1,260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wahl Clipper Corporation 1,260 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center 1,259 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honda Aircraft Company, LLC 1,259 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.