Employer · Kentucky

#078 Food Giant

Elkton, KY · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

#078 Food Giant runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

#078 Food Giant: 1.6 TCR = 47% of industry BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

#078 Food Giant safety composite

#078 Food Giant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

#078 Food Giant: 0.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2017

#078 Food Giant's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Elkton, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 47% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #28/364
  • PHOTO Trenton 10 Food Rite
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trenton 10 Food Rite (0.0 TCR gap)

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#078 Food Giant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows #078 Food Giant averages 1.6 TCR (47% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

#078 Food Giant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.2 · BLS 3.4

Where #078 Food Giant falls in its industry

30,654 industry establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 364 industry employers in Kentucky.

#078 Food Giant (45 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate #078 Food Giant
#078 Food Giant (45 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

#078 Food Giant has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · KY · Elkton

30,654 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 7 employers in Elkton, KY · 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 Trenton 10 Food Rite 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #4601 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 386 AMES 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 922 NEW HAMPTON 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE PMI Field 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLAYTON WATKINS CONSTRUCTION CO INC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Kentucky Construction 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR TODD COUNTY COURTHOUSE 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR TODD COUNTY JAIL 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Food Giant #515 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Multi-Color Corporation F&B Elkton 28 FTE
NAT-TCR BorgWarner Transmission Systems - Bellwood 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Legends - Scranton Railriders 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR K4 - Oxford Valley 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mount Pleasant (Mimtp) 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE ADS Waverly 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.P. Eberlein Co., Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advance Transit, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clean Venture Inc. - Clayton 45 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.