Frozen side dishes manufacturing · Tennessee

Custom Foods of America

Knoxville, TN · ~503 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Custom Foods of America runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Frozen side dishes manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Custom Foods of America: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Frozen side dishes manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Custom Foods of America safety composite

Custom Foods of America scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−4.7

2016→2023

Custom Foods of America injury rate improved

Custom Foods of America's TCR fell 4.7 from 7.4 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.4 · 2017=6.0 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=8.4 · 2023=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Lucia's Pizza Manufa…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 142 inj
  • SIZE ~503 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lucia's Pizza Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Custom Foods of America in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Custom Foods of America averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Frozen side dishes manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Custom Foods of America TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=6 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=8.4 · 2023=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Custom Foods of America falls in its industry

274 Frozen side dishes manufacturi establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Frozen side dishes manufacturi employers in Tennessee.

Custom Foods of America (503 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Custom Foods of America
Custom Foods of America (503 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Custom Foods of America has more employees than the Frozen side dishes manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2023 2.7 1.6 17 0 0
2019 8.4 6.7 43 0 1
2018 5.7 5.2 27 0 0
2017 6.0 5.3 25 0 0
2016 7.4 4.4 30 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · TN · Knoxville

274 Frozen side dishes manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, TN · 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 Lucia's Pizza Manufacturing 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland Plant 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monogram Appetizers Moore Road 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Totino's 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT 503 FTE
STATE-SIZE UNIPRES USA INC 502 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9722 502 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summers Taylor Inc. 501 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health System, Inc 5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Functional Pathways of TN LLC 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services K-12 2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR Kalco Machine & Mfg. Co. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Peru 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Color Communications, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4223-M0500 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stephenville Plant 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lahey Clinic North 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charlotte Pipe and Foundry 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant L3/LG 503 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: 2023, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.