Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses · Ohio

Birchwood Foods

Name: Birchwood Foods Workplace Safety Data
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Columbus, OH · ~192 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Birchwood Foods runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade B.

Birchwood Foods: 2.6 TCR = 78% of Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birchwood Foods safety composite

Birchwood Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% 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).

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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

−2.3

2016→2018

Birchwood Foods injury rate improved

Birchwood Foods's TCR fell 2.3 from 3.1 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 78% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #5/25
PHOTO Cumming Packaged
BOOK 3y book
INJ 17 inj
SIZE ~192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cumming Packaged (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Birchwood Foods averages 2.6 TCR (78% of the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

Birchwood Foods TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Birchwood Foods falls in its industry

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 25 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f employers in Ohio.

Birchwood Foods (192 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Birchwood Foods has fewer employees than the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purcha median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2018	0.8	0.0	2	0
2017	3.8	3.0	10	0
2016	3.1	2.3	5	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · OH · Columbus

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Cumming Packaged	CUMMING, GA	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Columbus Craft Meats - Bayfront	HAYWARD, CA	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Greenfield Drive Plant	UNION CITY, TN	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Juneau Corporate Office	MILWAUKEE, WI	2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Grae-Con construction	STEUBENVILLE	192 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Davis Pickering Company	MARIETTA	192 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kleen Test Products - Strasburg	STRASBURG	192 FTE
STATE-SIZE	liqui-box	ASHLAND	192 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nationwide Children's Hospital	Columbus	13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus	Columbus	10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Riverside Methodist Hospital	Columbus	9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR	North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1	Columbus	5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR	Pe Ell Area	Pe Ell, WA	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bernhard MCC L.L.C. FL	Apopka, FL	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Columbus (Mscol)	Columbus, MS	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Power Services : RT - Atlanta, GA, USA	Suwanee, GA	2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Joliet (Iljol)	Rockdale, IL	192 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Carlisle Hib (Pacas)	Carlisle, PA	192 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Main Plant	Elkhart, IN	192 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Stadium Food and Beverage	Charlotte, NC	192 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: 2018, 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.