Yeast manufacturing · Tennessee

American Yeast Corp.

Memphis, TN · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Yeast Corp. runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Yeast manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

American Yeast Corp.: 8.9 TCR = 216% of Yeast manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Yeast Corp. safety composite

American Yeast Corp. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.2

2017→2022

American Yeast Corp. injury rate improved

American Yeast Corp.'s TCR fell 12.2 from 16.3 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 16.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=16.3 · 2019=6.1 · 2022=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 216% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Canopy Foods-Downing…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Canopy Foods-Downingtown Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Yeast Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Yeast Corp. averages 8.9 TCR (216% of the Yeast manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Yeast Corp. TCR series: 2017=16.3 · 2019=6.1 · 2022=4.2 · BLS 4.1

Where American Yeast Corp. falls in its industry

335 Yeast manufacturing establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Yeast manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

American Yeast Corp. (54 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate American Yeast Corp.
American Yeast Corp. (54 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

American Yeast Corp. has fewer employees than the Yeast manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2019 6.1 2.0 3 0 0
2017 16.3 5.9 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · TN · Memphis

335 Yeast manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 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 Canopy Foods-Downingtown Plant 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIRST CHOICE INGREDIENTS 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harry & David 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belgium Butter Nut & Candy LLC 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sweetwater Utilities Board 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Clarksville Annex 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntosh 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROBERTSON CO - CNR274 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Elk Grove 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR el super #41 baldwin park 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Department of Military Affairs 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kennebec Lumber Company 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Miller's Merry Manor 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint-Gobain ADFORS Dublin, Ga 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Briarcliff Service Yard 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willow Park ALF 54 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, 2019, 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.