Hams (except poultry) produced in slaughtering plants · North Carolina

Tar Heel Fresh

Name: Tar Heel Fresh Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Tar Heel, NC · ~4,593 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Tar Heel Fresh runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hams (except poultry) produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Tar Heel Fresh: 3.3 TCR = 101% of Hams (except poultry) produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tar Heel Fresh safety composite

Tar Heel Fresh scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 55%), 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers
DART rate: B 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers
Fatalities: C 0

Safer than 55% 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

−2.5

2016→2021

Tar Heel Fresh injury rate improved

Tar Heel Fresh's TCR fell 2.5 from 4.6 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.6 · 2019=3.4 · 2021=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Tar Heel, NC ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 101% of ind

DART 1.6 DART
RANK #6/9
PHOTO Lone Star Beef 2016
BOOK 3y book
INJ 219 inj
SIZE ~4,593 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lone Star Beef 2016 (0.0 TCR gap)

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DeKalb County

3.4
This site

3.3
Lone Star Beef

3.3
JBS Marshallto

3.3
Gibbon Packing

3.3

What this shows Tar Heel Fresh averages 3.3 TCR (101% of the Hams (except poultry) produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

Tar Heel Fresh TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2019=3.4 · 2021=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Tar Heel Fresh falls in its industry

212 Hams (except poultry) produced establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Hams (except poultry) produced employers in North Carolina.

Tar Heel Fresh (4,593 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Tar Heel Fresh has more employees than the Hams (except poultry) produced in slaugh median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2021	2.1	1.6	64	31
2019	3.4	2.6	83	69
2016	4.6	2.4	72	138

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · NC · Tar Heel

212 Hams (except poultry) produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 11 employers in Tar Heel, NC · 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	Lone Star Beef 2016	SAN ANGELO, TX	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DeKalb County Packing Company	DEKALB, IL	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	JBS Marshalltown	MARSHALLTOWN, IA	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Gibbon Packing	GIBBON, NE	3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	531 Northridge Distribution	RURAL HALL	4,487 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - RDU1	GARNER	4,707 FTE
STATE-SIZE	New Hanover Regional Medical Center	WILMINGTON	4,768 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Budd Group Janitorial	WINSTON-SALEM	4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp.	Tar Heel	3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tar Heel Distribution Center	Tar Heel	351 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PSSI - 0238 Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. - Tar Heel	Tar Heel	245 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dedicated - Tar Heel Shop and Office	Tar Heel	229 FTE
NAT-TCR	Plant SR	Dalton, GA	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Doosan Fuel Cell America, Inc.	South Windsor, CT	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital	Lincoln, IL	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lakeside Industries (020)	Vancouver, WA	3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Ahrc Nassau	Brookville, NY	4,587 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lowell, AR - JB Hunt Corporate	Lowell, AR	4,585 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ACCO Engineered Systems	Pasadena, CA	4,604 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MD-02	Baltimore, MD	4,581 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: 2021, 2019, 2016. 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.