Grocery stores · Kentucky

Anchor Foods, Inc.

Lexington, KY · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Anchor Foods, Inc. runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Anchor Foods, Inc.: 5.3 TCR = 155% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Anchor Foods, Inc. safety composite

Anchor Foods, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Anchor Foods, Inc.: 1.6 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

Anchor Foods, Inc.'s TCR rose 7.2 from 1.6 in 2023 to 8.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 155% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #261/364
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0219 Re…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0219 Redding (0.0 TCR gap)

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Anchor Foods, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Anchor Foods, Inc. averages 5.3 TCR (155% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Anchor Foods, Inc. TCR series: 2023=1.6 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Anchor Foods, Inc. falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #261 safest of 364 Grocery stores employers in Kentucky.

Anchor Foods, Inc. (71 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Anchor Foods, Inc.
Anchor Foods, Inc. (71 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Anchor Foods, Inc. has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher 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
2024 8.9 3.6 5 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · KY · Lexington

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, 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 Trader Joe's 0219 Redding 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Stephen IGA #658 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10213 Middletown 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 016-00327 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Haase Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE WCA Group, LLC Louisville 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Angliana 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Four Roses Distillery, LLC Cox's Creek 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR Canam Steel Corporation 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Summerville Medical Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Healthcare Center at Patriot Heights 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Earth, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Semiconductor, LLC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schafer Ranch, Inc 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE BioFit Engineered Products 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Gaines Seed Inc 71 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.