Processed poultry manufacturing · Ohio

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats

Oakwood, OH · ~593 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed poultry manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Processed poultry manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats safety composite

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−0.9

2019→2020

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats injury rate improved

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats's TCR fell 0.9 from 7.0 in 2019 to 6.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.0 · 2020=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Oakwood, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Shelbyville Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~593 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shelbyville Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cooper Farms Cooked Meats in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cooper Farms Cooked Meats averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Processed poultry manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats TCR series: 2019=7 · 2020=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Cooper Farms Cooked Meats falls in its industry

509 Processed poultry manufacturin establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Processed poultry manufacturin employers in Ohio.

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats (593 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cooper Farms Cooked Meats
Cooper Farms Cooked Meats (593 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats has fewer employees than the Processed poultry manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.1 5.9 34 0 0
2019 7.0 6.7 42 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · OH · Oakwood

509 Processed poultry manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 13 employers in Oakwood, OH · 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 Shelbyville Plant 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pearl River Foods LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koch's Turkey Farm 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR OKF Muldrow Processing 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Newell Brands Home Fragrance Division 593 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perry Nuclear Power Plant 592 FTE
STATE-SIZE ArcelorMittal Tubular Products USA LLC 594 FTE
STATE-SIZE thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America Main Plant 594 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hatchery 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR 104 Oakwood 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crystal Clear Building Services, Inc. 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Burleigh 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Signature Landscapes- Reno 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Roofing HQ 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tyler Branch 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Supply Chain : McAllen, TX 593 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountainland Supply Co 593 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transit Team 593 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turtle Bay Resort 593 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.