Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses · Wisconsin
Birchwood Foods
Kenosha, WI · ~450 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 5.6
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Birchwood Foods runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.
Birchwood Foods: 5.6 TCR = 171% of Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Birchwood Foods safety composite
Birchwood Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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).
40/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- D 5.64 per 100 workers
Safer than 38% of industry peers
- DART rate
- D 3.56 per 100 workers
Safer than 35% 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%).
Rising injury rate
Birchwood Foods: 4.6 → 5.9 TCR
Peak year 2020 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2021
Birchwood Foods's TCR rose 1.2 from 4.6 in 2019 to 5.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 311612 · Kenosha, WI ABOVE-IND · MID
Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 171% of ind
- DART 3.6 DART
- RANK #33/52
- PHOTO Boar's Head - New Ca…
- BOOK 3y book
- INJ 64 inj
- SIZE ~450 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Boar's Head - New Castle (0.0 TCR gap)
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Birchwood Foods in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- Claryville Pla
Claryville Plant
5.7 TCR
- This site
Birchwood Foods
5.6 TCR
- Boar's Head -
Boar's Head - New Castle
5.6 TCR
- 304 Colorado M
304 Colorado Meats
5.6 TCR
- Green Bay Dres
Green Bay Dressed Beef East River Processing
5.6 TCR
What this shows Birchwood Foods averages 5.6 TCR (171% of the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).
Birchwood Foods TCR series: 2019=4.6 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=5.9 · BLS 3.3
Where Birchwood Foods falls in its industry
613 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce establishmentsSafer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.
Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 52 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce employers in Wisconsin.
Birchwood Foods has more employees than the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry median and a higher 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 | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5.9 | 3.6 | 22 | 6 | 0 |
| 2020 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 20 | 10 | 0 |
| 2019 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 22 | 1 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
311612 · WI · Kenosha
613 Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 178 employers in Kenosha, WI · 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 | Boar's Head - New Castle | 5.6 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | 304 Colorado Meats | 5.6 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Claryville Plant | 5.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Green Bay Dressed Beef East River Processing | 5.6 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | HUSCO International Waukesha | 450 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Servite | 450 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Phillips Medisize Corporation - Phillips Medical New Richmond | 450 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | WM 2127 | 450 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MKE1 | 3,474 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Amazon.com Services LLC - MKE1 | 2,936 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Aurora Medical Center Kenosha | 2,233 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Amazon Transportation Services : MKE5 | 1,671 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Dubois | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Sunflower #8209 | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Inskeep Ford | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Union School District | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | 0470 - Almaden Ca Whse | 450 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | PlyGem Building Products - Bryan Windows | 450 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | 4769-5038-CORPORATE | 450 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | National Diversified Sales | 450 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.