Meat & Meat Products · Alabama

Stock Yards / Birmingham

Name: Stock Yards / Birmingham Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Birmingham, AL · ~125 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Stock Yards / Birmingham runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meat & Meat Products workplace, earning a grade D.

Stock Yards / Birmingham: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Meat & Meat Products BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stock Yards / Birmingham safety composite

Stock Yards / Birmingham scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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).

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.6

2017→2020

Stock Yards / Birmingham injury rate improved

Stock Yards / Birmingham's TCR fell 5.6 from 9.4 in 2017 to 3.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.4 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #4/7
PHOTO SWIFT BEEF CO.
BOOK 4y book
INJ 30 inj
SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWIFT BEEF CO. (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.3
SWIFT BEEF CO.

6.3
Cargill Neb Ci

6.3
Buckhead Meat

6.3
Nitsches Sausa

6.3

What this shows Stock Yards / Birmingham averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Meat & Meat Products BLS benchmark).

Stock Yards / Birmingham TCR series: 2017=9.4 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Stock Yards / Birmingham falls in its industry

613 Meat & Meat Products establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Meat & Meat Products employers in Alabama.

Stock Yards / Birmingham (125 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Meat & Meat Products 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
2020	3.8	1.9	4
2019	5.4	3.9	7
2018	6.7	4.4	9
2017	9.4	9.4	10

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · AL · Birmingham

613 Meat & Meat Products 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	SWIFT BEEF CO.	RIVERSIDE, CA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cargill Neb City	NEBRASKA CITY, NE	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Buckhead Meat of Minnesota	ST. CLOUD, MN	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nitsches Sausage Company	ROSEVILLE, MI	6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Michigan Avenue Complex	MOBILE	125 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Global Fire Sprinklers, LLC	FLORENCE	125 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Food Ingredients Technology Company, L.L.C.	ANNISTON	125 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CRB Alabama	BIRMINGHAM	125 FTE
CITY-NEAR	USD	Birmingham	9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CLASSIC FOODS	Birmingham	9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate	Birmingham	8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BIRMINGHAM PACKERS	Birmingham	8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR	Bi-State Construction Co., Inc., Easton, PA	Easton, PA	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	11 Ceres	Ceres, CA	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	VRA	Verona, NJ	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Schayes, Inc dba New York Sash	Whitesboro, NY	6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Dia, Dc	Washington, DC	125 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Antelope Valley Family Center	Lancaster, CA	125 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Heritage Farms LLC	El Centro, CA	125 FTE
NAT-SIZE	AHC Northbrooke	Jackson, TN	125 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: 2020, 2019, 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.