Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing · Nebraska

Smart Chicken - Tecumseh

Name: Smart Chicken - Tecumseh Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Tecumseh, NE · ~157 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 13.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Smart Chicken - Tecumseh runs at 419% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing workplace, earning a grade F.

Smart Chicken - Tecumseh: 13.8 TCR = 419% of Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smart Chicken - Tecumseh safety composite

Smart Chicken - Tecumseh scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 13.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.4

2017→2018

Smart Chicken - Tecumseh injury rate improved

Smart Chicken - Tecumseh's TCR fell 10.4 from 19.0 in 2017 to 8.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 19.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=19.0 · 2018=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Tecumseh, NE ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 419% of ind

DART 4.9 DART
RANK #5/6
PHOTO Compass Foods, Inc.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 28 inj
SIZE ~157 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Compass Foods, Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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OKF Fort Smith

14.2
This site

13.8
Compass Foods,

13.7
Noel Plant

13.7
Brakebush Well

13.6

What this shows Smart Chicken - Tecumseh averages 13.8 TCR (419% of the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS benchmark).

Smart Chicken - Tecumseh TCR series: 2017=19 · 2018=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Smart Chicken - Tecumseh falls in its industry

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Poultry slaughtering, dressing employers in Nebraska.

Smart Chicken - Tecumseh (157 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Smart Chicken - Tecumseh has fewer employees than the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and pack 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
2018	8.6	4.9	5	9	0
2017	19.0	7.5	23	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · NE · Tecumseh

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 5 employers in Tecumseh, NE · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Compass Foods, Inc.	RIVERBANK, CA	13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Noel Plant	NOEL, MO	13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Brakebush Wells	WELLS, MN	13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	OKF Fort Smith Feed Mill	FORT SMITH, AR	14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Stephens & Smith Construction Co., Inc.	LINCOLN	157 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1159 LOWE S OF CENTRAL OMAHA NE	OMAHA	157 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2807-1184	OMAHA	157 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SalonCentric Inc. - La Vista Distribution	LA VISTA	157 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tecumseh Plant	Tecumseh	169 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Topp's Mechanical Inc.	Tecumseh	32 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tecumseh, NE - 333 S 3rd St	Tecumseh	20 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tecumseh Peterson Farm	Tecumseh	19 FTE
NAT-TCR	Niagara Falls Center (Nynia)	Niagara Falls, NY	13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Park Rapids Area Schools- ISD 309	Park Rapids, MN	13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dorchester Cluster	Tallahassee, FL	13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	LuLu's Destin, LLC.	Destin, FL	13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Missouri River Center	Great Falls, MT	157 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Buckhead Beef of Atlanta	College Park, GA	157 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Phoenix Mountain Nursing Center	Phoenix, AZ	157 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Montour Plant	Washingtonville, PA	157 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.