Chickens, slaughtering and dressing · South Carolina

The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc.

Ward, SC · ~226 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chickens, slaughtering and dressing workplace, earning a grade F.

The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc.: 8.1 TCR = 246% of Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. safety composite

The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc.: 9.9 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2024

The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.6 from 9.9 in 2021 to 11.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Ward, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 246% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Pine Bluff Jeff Pkwy…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~226 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pine Bluff Jeff Pkwy Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. averages 8.1 TCR (246% of the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS benchmark).

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

The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. TCR series: 2021=9.9 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=11.5 · BLS 3.3

Where The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. falls in its industry

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dre establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Chickens, slaughtering and dre employers in South Carolina.

The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. (226 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc.
The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. (226 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. has fewer employees than the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing 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
2024 11.5 11.5 12 0 0
2023 3.4 2.5 16 0 0
2022 7.7 7.7 11 0 0
2021 9.9 9.9 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · SC · Ward

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dressing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 5 employers in Ward, 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 Pine Bluff Jeff Pkwy Plant 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robards Plant 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Little Rock Custom Craft Poultry 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amick Farms, LLC Processing Plant 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greenville 02 Tape 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hidden Lake 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1349 - Spartanburg 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bulldog Hiway Express 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Best Dressed Chicken Inc. 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Pet Food Solutions 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR JRD Growers 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR QSI Ward 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon Retail LLC - IBF1 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NHM, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR McKearney Asphalt & Sealing, Inc 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Coke Northeast - Syracuse 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kelly Box & Packaging 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - LAS8 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DOK2 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - WMO2 226 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.