Poultry Processing · North Carolina

Wilkesboro Food Service Plant

Wilkesboro, NC · ~312 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Wilkesboro Food Service Plant runs at 314% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade F.

Wilkesboro Food Service Plant: 10.4 TCR = 314% of Poultry Processing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wilkesboro Food Service Plant safety composite

Wilkesboro Food Service Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 30% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 6% 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

−1.6

2017→2024

Wilkesboro Food Service Plant injury rate improved

Wilkesboro Food Service Plant's TCR fell 1.6 from 5.3 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 27.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.3 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=13.1 · 2021=19.1 · 2022=27.1 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Wilkesboro, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 314% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #31/32
  • PHOTO Amick Farms, LLC MS …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 107 inj
  • SIZE ~312 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amick Farms, LLC MS Processing Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Wilkesboro Food Service Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wilkesboro Food Service Plant averages 10.4 TCR (314% of the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Wilkesboro Food Service Plant TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=13.1 · 2021=19.1 · 2022=27.1 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Wilkesboro Food Service Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 32 Poultry Processing employers in North Carolina.

Wilkesboro Food Service Plant (312 employees, TCR 10.4) 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 Wilkesboro Food Service Plant
Wilkesboro Food Service Plant (312 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Wilkesboro Food Service Plant has fewer employees than the Poultry Processing 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 3.7 2.5 10 2 0
2023 4.9 2.6 6 7 0
2022 27.1 24.9 16 67 0
2021 19.1 17.8 20 38 0
2020 13.1 12.4 16 22 1
2019 4.3 3.6 10 2 0
2018 5.4 3.6 15 0 0
2017 5.3 3.0 14 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · NC · Wilkesboro

509 Poultry Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 43 employers in Wilkesboro, NC · 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 Amick Farms, LLC MS Processing Plant 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glen Allen Plant 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilkesboro Fresh Plant 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Holland F/P Plant 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE River City Construction Inc 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bahnson, Inc 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concord Complex 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE JCI Tarboro 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1290 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1290 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westwood Hills Nursing & Rehab 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II 244 FTE
NAT-TCR Stein Distributing Company Inc. 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin County Health Care 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Dodge Community School District 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TXS018 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE MillerKnoll Midwest Distribution Center 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE V.K. Knowlton Construction and Utilities Inc. 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frg Rdc 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE MSV/Ready Seafood - Saco 312 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.