Poultry Processing · North Carolina

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II

Wilkesboro, NC · ~244 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II runs at 561% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade F.

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II: 18.5 TCR = 561% of Poultry Processing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II safety composite

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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 18.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 28.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II: 20.9 → 28.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 28.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2022

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II's TCR rose 7.2 from 20.9 in 2017 to 28.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 18.5 · 561% of ind

  • DART 28.1 DART
  • RANK #32/32
  • PHOTO MAPLE LEAF FARMS, IN…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 103 inj
  • SIZE ~244 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MAPLE LEAF FARMS, INC. - SERENADE & DC (0.7 TCR gap)

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Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II averages 18.5 TCR (561% of the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II TCR series: 2017=20.9 · 2018=12.3 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=17.8 · 2021=23.2 · 2022=28.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II falls in its industry

509 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #32 safest of 32 Poultry Processing employers in North Carolina.

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II (244 employees, TCR 18.5) 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 Fresh Plant II
Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II (244 employees, TCR 18.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II 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
2022 28.1 28.1 5 26 0
2021 23.2 19.4 23 37 0
2020 17.8 15.0 19 25 0
2019 8.7 6.9 16 8 0
2018 12.3 11.2 22 10 0
2017 20.9 19.0 18 25 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 MAPLE LEAF FARMS, INC. - SERENADE & DC 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Case Farms Canton Ohio garage 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maple Leaf Farms, Inc., Cromwell Hatchery 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Simply Essentials 19.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE AkzoNobel High Point 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cardinal FG -Mooresville FG 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ziehl-Abegg 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penco Products Inc 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkesboro Fresh Plant 2,164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkesboro Food Service Plant 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1290 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1290 304 FTE
NAT-TCR 510316-Arl-South Sta 18.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 225 Utica (Shelby) 18.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 10521 Drummond Rd 18.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-2-Williams Sonoma 18.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE AGCO : Batavia 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE SPPR Clean Fleet 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE L'Oreal - North Little Rock Distribution 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10599 Spring House 244 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.