Protein Processing · Alabama

Stock Yards Birmingham

Birmingham, AL · ~127 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stock Yards Birmingham runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Protein Processing workplace, earning a grade F.

Stock Yards Birmingham: 7.2 TCR = 218% of Protein Processing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stock Yards Birmingham safety composite

Stock Yards Birmingham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Stock Yards Birmingham: 8.3 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2024

Stock Yards Birmingham's TCR rose 1.0 from 8.3 in 2021 to 9.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 218% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Husks Unlimited
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Husks Unlimited (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stock Yards Birmingham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stock Yards Birmingham averages 7.2 TCR (218% of the Protein Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Stock Yards Birmingham TCR series: 2021=8.3 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Stock Yards Birmingham falls in its industry

613 Protein Processing establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Protein Processing employers in Alabama.

Stock Yards Birmingham (127 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Stock Yards Birmingham
Stock Yards Birmingham (127 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Stock Yards Birmingham has fewer employees than the Protein Processing median and a higher 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 9.3 9.3 8 0 0
2023 6.7 4.8 7 0 0
2022 4.5 4.0 9 0 0
2021 8.3 3.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · AL · Birmingham

613 Protein Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 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 Husks Unlimited 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kayem Foods, Inc 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manley Meats, Inc 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSI Industries, LLC 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plant 39 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swift Lumber, Inc. 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.W. Harris Co., Inc. - Florence 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoals Technologies, LLC 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR Mnwad - Wadena 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR DHMCO Associates LLC 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Barbour Plastics Inc 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR DLP Harris Regional Hospital LLC 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Emory Electric, LLC 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Automatic Handling International, Inc. 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schmitt Woodland Hills, Inc. 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Prairie Container 127 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. 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.