Processed poultry manufacturing · Ohio

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats

Van Wert, OH · ~597 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed poultry manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats: 5.7 TCR = 172% of Processed poultry manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y 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 total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−2.7

2016→2021

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats injury rate improved

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats's TCR fell 2.7 from 6.5 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.5 · 2018=6.8 · 2021=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Van Wert, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 172% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #9/13
  • PHOTO Ambassador Sanitatio…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 92 inj
  • SIZE ~597 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ambassador Sanitation Management @ Pilgrim's Pride (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 5.7 TCR (172% 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: 2016=6.5 · 2018=6.8 · 2021=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Cooper Farms Cooked Meats falls in its industry

509 Processed poultry manufacturin establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #9 safest of 13 Processed poultry manufacturin employers in Ohio.

Cooper Farms Cooked Meats (597 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 (597 employees, TCR 5.7) 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
2021 3.8 2.6 22 0 0
2018 6.8 6.1 38 0 0
2016 6.5 5.3 32 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · OH · Van Wert

509 Processed poultry manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 48 employers in Van Wert, 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 Ambassador Sanitation Management @ Pilgrim's Pride 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln Premium Poultry 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR OKF Fort Smith Reed Lane Plant 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR OKF Transportation 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Delphi EEA DEEDS Division 597 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nissin Brake Ohio 597 FTE
STATE-SIZE Humana Pharmacy 2 597 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Refining Company LLC 596 FTE
CITY-NEAR VAN WERT OH 951 FTE
CITY-NEAR Danfoss Power Solutions II, LLC 840 FTE
CITY-NEAR VW Cooked Meats Plant 685 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Wert Health 416 FTE
NAT-TCR 2077-Us Dd Nw Baltimore Branch 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Manorcare Yeadon 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Calumet-Riverdale 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR FRT - El Paso 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE IFA-Rotorion 597 FTE
NAT-SIZE Douglas County 597 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel Tool & Engineering 597 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tandem Diabetes Care Inc. Roselle Street & Remote 597 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: 2021, 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.