Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing · Alabama

Bud's Best Cookies

Birmingham, AL · ~183 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bud's Best Cookies runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bud's Best Cookies: 4.3 TCR = 132% of Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bud's Best Cookies safety composite

Bud's Best Cookies scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Bud's Best Cookies: 2.5 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2018

Bud's Best Cookies's TCR rose 2.3 from 2.5 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311821 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 132% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK P33
  • PHOTO Enjoy Life Natural B…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Enjoy Life Natural Brands, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bud's Best Cookies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bud's Best Cookies averages 4.3 TCR (132% of the Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bud's Best Cookies TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=5.8 · 2018=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Bud's Best Cookies falls in its industry

166 Bakery products, dry (e.g., bi establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bud's Best Cookies (183 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Bud's Best Cookies
Bud's Best Cookies (183 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Bud's Best Cookies has fewer employees than the Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, co median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 4.8 2.7 7 0 0
2017 5.8 4.5 9 0 0
2016 2.5 1.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311821 · AL · Birmingham

166 Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 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 Enjoy Life Natural Brands, LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Treehouse Foods, INC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mondelez International Portland Bakery 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norse Dairy Systems 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 0663 LOWE S OF MADISON AL 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central AL/Birmingham Install 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dunn Building Company, LLC 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE H.O. Weaver & Sons, Inc. 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR Holiday Foods 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Butler Used Auto Parts, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Estrella (Azpni) 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pensacola Center (Flpen) 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Transport Dynamics 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverbend Medical Group-Springfield 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sugar Valley 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coho Sort (Wasnr) 183 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.