Poultry Processing · Tennessee

Shelbyville Plant

Shelbyville, TN · ~1,399 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Shelbyville Plant runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade D.

Shelbyville Plant: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Poultry Processing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shelbyville Plant safety composite

Shelbyville Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 46% 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

Shelbyville Plant held a steady TCR band

Shelbyville Plant's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.7 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.7 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=14.9 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Shelbyville, TN ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO Pearl River Foods LLC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 253 inj
  • SIZE ~1,399 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pearl River Foods LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shelbyville Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shelbyville Plant averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Shelbyville Plant TCR series: 2017=2.7 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=14.9 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Shelbyville Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #9 safest of 12 Poultry Processing employers in Tennessee.

Shelbyville Plant (1,399 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Shelbyville Plant
Shelbyville Plant (1,399 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Shelbyville 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 3.0 1.7 25 15 0
2023 4.8 4.0 38 22 0
2022 14.9 14.2 26 157 0
2021 9.4 8.7 29 89 0
2020 10.4 9.9 28 111 1
2019 3.6 2.5 33 19 0
2018 3.4 2.1 40 9 0
2017 2.7 1.8 34 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · TN · Shelbyville

509 Poultry Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 56 employers in Shelbyville, 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 Pearl River Foods LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooper Farms Cooked Meats 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koch's Turkey Farm 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR OKF Muldrow Processing 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nike (Digital) - Memphis TN. (SMRU12627) 1,400 FTE
STATE-SIZE Obion County Plant 1,395 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodman Company 1,394 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8807747-WILLIAMS SONOMA COVE 1,374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bedford County Board of Education 1,034 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIG G EXPRESS INC 623 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6062 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6062 499 FTE
NAT-TCR East Carroll Nursing Home dba Countryview Manor 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller's Senior Living 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Ak Pride Rock 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR FLO010 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Retail Merchandising Services 1,399 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metropolitan Methodist Hospital 1,399 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-ALMOB1 1,399 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Chip 2000 Commercial Cleaning, Inc. 1,399 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.