Bakery Ingredients Manufacturing · Kentucky

Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing

Louisville, KY · ~273 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bakery Ingredients Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing: 2.7 TCR = 65% of Bakery Ingredients Manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing safety composite

Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.2

2016→2024

Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing injury rate improved

Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing's TCR fell 1.2 from 2.4 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.4 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Red Star Yeast Company
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 65 inj
  • SIZE ~273 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Red Star Yeast Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing averages 2.7 TCR (65% of the Bakery Ingredients Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing falls in its industry

335 Bakery Ingredients Manufacturi establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Bakery Ingredients Manufacturi employers in Kentucky.

Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing (273 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing
Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing (273 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing has more employees than the Bakery Ingredients Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2024 1.2 0.8 3 0 0
2023 3.1 1.6 8 0 0
2022 1.1 0.0 3 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 5 0 0
2020 4.2 3.8 11 0 0
2019 3.9 3.5 10 1 0
2018 3.1 2.8 9 0 0
2017 2.9 2.6 9 0 0
2016 2.4 1.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · KY · Louisville

335 Bakery Ingredients Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 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 Red Star Yeast Company 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sensient Flavors Harbor Beach 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ESM Technologies 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Summit Polymers Inc. P06 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Manufacturing 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE AFM East US KY Ft Campbell KY AFE KY989 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keeneland Hospitality LLC 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Delta Plastics 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Vcf 112 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CMC Southern Post Texas 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Vcf 116 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Distribution Center 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cooper Standard-Oscoda Plant 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE OBE - Midway 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Longwood at Oakmont 273 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.