Poultry Processing · North Carolina

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant

Wilkesboro, NC · ~2,164 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
2
Fatalities

The verdict

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant runs at 308% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
2
worker fatalities on record

Grade compares Wilkesboro Fresh Plant's OSHA Total Case Rate of 10.2 to the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (308% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Wilkesboro Fresh Plant's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 311615.

Where Wilkesboro Fresh Plant falls in its industry

525 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 32 Poultry Processing employers in North Carolina.

Trend analysis for Wilkesboro Fresh Plant

Between 2017 and 2023, Wilkesboro Fresh Plant's Total Case Rate improved from 8.8 to 8.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 10% decrease across 6 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 7.2, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 14.8, a spread of 7.5 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 7 reporting years, Wilkesboro Fresh Plant recorded 764 total injuries and illnesses and 2 fatalities. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 764 injuries, 792 illnesses, and 2 fatalities shown on this page for Wilkesboro Fresh Plant are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311615 - Poultry Processing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

69 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 3,881,599 hours worked = 3.56 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Wilkesboro Fresh Plant (this establishment) 10.16 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg
Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 311615
North Carolina state avg (all industries) 3.89 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Wilkesboro Fresh Plant to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 8.0 3.6 74 81 0
2022 14.8 13.0 113 195 0
2021 12.7 12.0 76 175 0
2020 11.2 9.4 104 125 2
2019 8.4 6.4 138 63 0
2018 7.2 6.2 116 61 0
2017 8.8 7.0 143 92 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Wilkesboro Fresh Plant's reported OSHA injury record versus its Poultry Processing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 308% of the Poultry Processing benchmark, Wilkesboro Fresh Plant reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Poultry Processing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Wilkesboro Fresh Plant's safety grade?
Wilkesboro Fresh Plant has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 10.2 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Poultry Processing.
How many injuries has Wilkesboro Fresh Plant reported?
Wilkesboro Fresh Plant has reported 764 total injuries and 2 fatalities across 7 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2023, 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.