Fruits, canned, manufacturing · North Carolina

Bay Valley Foods

Faison, NC · ~334 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bay Valley Foods runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fruits, canned, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Bay Valley Foods: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Fruits, canned, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bay Valley Foods safety composite

Bay Valley Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2018→2021

Bay Valley Foods injury rate improved

Bay Valley Foods's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.7 in 2018 to 1.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.7 · 2019=1.2 · 2021=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Faison, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Chestnut Hill
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~334 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chestnut Hill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bay Valley Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bay Valley Foods averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Fruits, canned, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bay Valley Foods TCR series: 2018=2.7 · 2019=1.2 · 2021=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Bay Valley Foods falls in its industry

330 Fruits, canned, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Fruits, canned, manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Bay Valley Foods (334 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bay Valley Foods
Bay Valley Foods (334 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Bay Valley Foods has more employees than the Fruits, canned, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2021 1.9 1.1 7 0 0
2019 1.2 0.4 3 0 0
2018 2.7 2.3 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · NC · Faison

330 Fruits, canned, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 3 employers in Faison, NC · 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 Chestnut Hill 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smucker Natural Foods, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indian Summer Coop 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSHA-PAYETTE 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 5298 334 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1064 334 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCH 334 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3001 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pickles Manufacturing LLC 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enviva Pellets Sampson 86 FTE
NAT-TCR 8809225-Walmart DC DSW Noncom TX 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ultimate Linings, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dynalectric Company - Colorado 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie Horizon Agri-Energy, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bowling Green 334 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company 334 FTE
NAT-SIZE 05 - Lander 334 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0441 - Palm Desert Ca Whse 334 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: 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.