Specialized Freight(except used goods) Trucking, Local · North Carolina

Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul

Kinston, NC · ~31 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Specialized Freight(except used goods) Trucking, Local workplace, earning a grade C.

Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul: 4.0 TCR = 88% of Specialized Freight(except used goods) Trucking, Local BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul safety composite

Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul: 2.6 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 14.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul's TCR rose 0.5 from 2.6 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484220 · Kinston, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #24/45
  • PHOTO TRANSPORTATION
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TRANSPORTATION (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul averages 4.0 TCR (88% of the Specialized Freight(except used goods) Trucking, Local BLS benchmark).

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

Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=14.6 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul falls in its industry

1,130 Specialized Freight(except use establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 45 Specialized Freight(except use employers in North Carolina.

Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul (31 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul
Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul (31 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul has fewer employees than the Specialized Freight(except used goods) T median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2023 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2020 14.6 14.6 4 0 0
2019 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2016 2.6 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484220 · NC · Kinston

1,130 Specialized Freight(except used goods) Trucking, Local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Kinston, 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 TRANSPORTATION 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR OHK Logistics, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenway Industries Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KTL 53031 Indianapolis 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Todd Glover Farms Inc 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunny Creek Farm Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rowan 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPI USA NC LLC - Roxboro 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caswell Developmental Center 1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Lenoir Health Care 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Lenoir 744 FTE
NAT-TCR The Park at Modesto 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bergey's Wholesale Parts 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Westfield - BMD 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Meadville Forging Company - Cambridge Springs CNC 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Compassus Home Health Wausau 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassus HH Plover 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE HC Mississippi Meridian 31 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.