Industrial salt manufacturing · Virginia

ACL - Flavor Center

Richmond, VA · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ACL - Flavor Center runs at 274% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Industrial salt manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

ACL - Flavor Center: 9.0 TCR = 274% of Industrial salt manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ACL - Flavor Center safety composite

ACL - Flavor Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

ACL - Flavor Center: 2.7 → 17.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.67× in 2024

ACL - Flavor Center's TCR rose 14.5 from 2.7 in 2022 to 17.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Richmond, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 274% of ind

  • DART 15.1 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Kerry - Plant City FL
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kerry - Plant City FL (0.1 TCR gap)

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ACL - Flavor Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ACL - Flavor Center averages 9.0 TCR (274% of the Industrial salt manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ACL - Flavor Center TCR series: 2022=2.7 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=17.3 · BLS 3.3

Where ACL - Flavor Center falls in its industry

485 Industrial salt manufacturing establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Industrial salt manufacturing employers in Virginia.

ACL - Flavor Center (40 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ACL - Flavor Center
ACL - Flavor Center (40 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

ACL - Flavor Center has fewer employees than the Industrial salt manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 17.3 15.1 6 2 0
2023 7.1 7.1 3 0 0
2022 2.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · VA · Richmond

485 Industrial salt manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 939 employers in Richmond, VA · 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 Kerry - Plant City FL 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR RBP Chemical Technology INC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Repackaging 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pyrotechnique By Grucci, Inc 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE ROCKBRIDGE-ALLEGHANY - LEXINGTON 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHAW Construction Corp 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE W. E. Bowman Construction, Inc. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hudgins Contracting Corp 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU Health System 14,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Commonwealth University 11,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU 5,271 FTE
CITY-NEAR CJW Medical Center 3,259 FTE
NAT-TCR Safety 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LAX-M 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Pines Medical Center 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Masterduct, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Winston Salem 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE OMEGA 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE M&B Environmental, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indy Park 40 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. 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.