Processed meats manufacturing · South Carolina

Sopakco

Bennettsville, SC · ~222 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sopakco runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Sopakco: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sopakco safety composite

Sopakco scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Sopakco: 1.2 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

Sopakco's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.2 in 2020 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Bennettsville, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO ALLE PROCESSING CORP
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ALLE PROCESSING CORP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sopakco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sopakco averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sopakco TCR series: 2020=1.2 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Sopakco falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Processed meats manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

Sopakco (222 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sopakco
Sopakco (222 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Sopakco has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 1.6 1.6 4 0 0
2023 1.2 0.8 3 0 0
2022 4.4 3.1 10 0 0
2021 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2020 1.2 0.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · SC · Bennettsville

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 27 employers in Bennettsville, SC · 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 ALLE PROCESSING CORP 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Queen City Sausage & Provision Inc 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Philly's Best Steak Company Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hormel Food 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 011-00703 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmetto Health Corporate - Parklane 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lynches River Contracting Inc 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milliken and Company - Cedar Hill Plant 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Bennettsville SC Oak River North 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marlboro 347 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Bennettsville SC Oak River South 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flakeboard America Limited 205 FTE
NAT-TCR HVAMA02 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Hereford 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 286 - Grand River Ave-Detroit 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Excab, Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Royall 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE 237 - Warren 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE 161 - Man O War Lexington 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walker 222 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. 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.