Processed poultry manufacturing · Texas

Waco Plant

Waco, TX · ~496 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waco Plant runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed poultry manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Waco Plant: 5.0 TCR = 151% of Processed poultry manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waco Plant safety composite

Waco Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.2

2016→2024

Waco Plant injury rate improved

Waco Plant's TCR fell 9.2 from 12.7 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.7 · 2017=1.9 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Waco, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 151% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #20/24
  • PHOTO FreeBird - West Faci…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 97 inj
  • SIZE ~496 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FreeBird - West Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waco Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waco Plant averages 5.0 TCR (151% of the Processed poultry manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Waco Plant TCR series: 2016=12.7 · 2017=1.9 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Waco Plant falls in its industry

509 Processed poultry manufacturin establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 24 Processed poultry manufacturin employers in Texas.

Waco Plant (496 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Waco Plant
Waco Plant (496 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Waco Plant has fewer employees than the Processed poultry manufacturing 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 3.6 3.4 8 15 0
2023 2.1 1.7 11 3 0
2022 4.2 4.0 14 14 0
2021 6.5 5.7 19 23 0
2020 4.6 3.6 17 10 0
2019 4.3 3.4 13 15 0
2017 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2016 12.7 8.5 13 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · TX · Waco

509 Processed poultry manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 314 employers in Waco, TX · 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 FreeBird - West Facility 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ambassador Sanitation Management @ Pilgrim's Pride Douglas 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peco Foods- Brooksville, MS 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8307_18994 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE SBBQ Operations, LLC. dba Sadler's Smokehouse 496 FTE
STATE-SIZE MSI Express - Grand Prairie 496 FTE
STATE-SIZE 900914 MATTRESS FIRM-CORPORATE 496 FTE
STATE-SIZE 591-Keller 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AUS3 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXWAC1 1,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3Harris AS IAS Waco 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Schenectady Steel Co., Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Treeo Senior Living 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sagamore Pendry Baltimore 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Westlake Plastics - Mayfield 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern Motion Plant 1 496 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1545 Crossways Blvd 496 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Higbee Company, LLC 496 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miller & Long Co Inc 496 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, 2019, 2017, 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.