Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing · Tennessee

Bells Plant

Bells, TN · ~554 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bells Plant runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bells Plant: 4.1 TCR = 123% of Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bells Plant safety composite

Bells Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

−1.7

2016→2023

Bells Plant injury rate improved

Bells Plant's TCR fell 1.7 from 5.1 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.1 · 2017=5.8 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311411 · Bells, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 123% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Wawona Frozen Foods-…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 135 inj
  • SIZE ~554 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wawona Frozen Foods- Cedar Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bells Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bells Plant averages 4.1 TCR (123% of the Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bells Plant TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=5.8 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Bells Plant falls in its industry

224 Vegetables, frozen, manufactur establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Vegetables, frozen, manufactur employers in Tennessee.

Bells Plant (554 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bells Plant
Bells Plant (554 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Bells Plant has more employees than the Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2023 3.4 2.1 19 0 0
2022 2.4 1.1 9 2 0
2021 3.7 1.9 23 0 0
2017 5.8 3.9 37 0 0
2016 5.1 4.6 47 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311411 · TN · Bells

224 Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 10 employers in Bells, 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 Wawona Frozen Foods- Cedar Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedars Mediterranean Foods 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vegetable Juices Inc 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fruit Fillings Inc 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walker Die Casting 554 FTE
STATE-SIZE TN - Cummins (4155) 554 FTE
STATE-SIZE FICOSA NORTH AMERICA COOKEVILLE 553 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZENA 555 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Pictsweet Company - Corporate Office 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid South Industrial, Inc. 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Pictsweet Co-Machine Harvest 28 FTE
NAT-TCR American Quality Stripping, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaw Roofing & Sheet Metal, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Avondale, Az #00391 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR C&B Victoria, TX 680 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hadco Construction LLC 554 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheppard Afb, Tx (Sam) 554 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6727 Lansing 554 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wegmans McKinley 084 554 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017, 2016. 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.