Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Georgia

Big Creek Foods, LLC

Gainesville, GA · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Creek Foods, LLC runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Creek Foods, LLC: 5.1 TCR = 132% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Creek Foods, LLC safety composite

Big Creek Foods, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−11.1

2016→2020

Big Creek Foods, LLC injury rate improved

Big Creek Foods, LLC's TCR fell 11.1 from 11.2 in 2016 to 0.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.2 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Gainesville, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO DECATUR PET FOOD
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DECATUR PET FOOD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Creek Foods, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Creek Foods, LLC averages 5.1 TCR (132% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Big Creek Foods, LLC TCR series: 2016=11.2 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=0.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Big Creek Foods, LLC falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 11 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Georgia.

Big Creek Foods, LLC (34 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Big Creek Foods, LLC
Big Creek Foods, LLC (34 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Big Creek Foods, LLC has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2020 0.1 0.1 3 0 0
2019 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2018 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2016 11.2 11.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · GA · Gainesville

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 306 employers in Gainesville, GA · 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 DECATUR PET FOOD 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pedigree Ovens Inc 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BHJ - St. Joseph 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premium Pet Health 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Total Timberland Services LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Athens Business Office - 1001 Prince Ave. Athens 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Neese District Jackson EMC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE JACKSON EMC - NEESE 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc. 5,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kubota Manufacturing of America Corporation 1,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poultry Processing 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mar-Jac Poultry, Inc Processing Plant 1,190 FTE
NAT-TCR Union County main hospital 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen EV 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR VALYNC-OPI-LYNCHBURG 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR OHCLEV-OPI-CLEVELAND 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grubb Ventures 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gowanus 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckley 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE copar 5744 34 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.