Ice cream manufacturing · Kentucky

Dippin' Dots Main Plant

Paducah, KY · ~257 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dippin' Dots Main Plant runs at 239% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ice cream manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dippin' Dots Main Plant: 7.9 TCR = 239% of Ice cream manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dippin' Dots Main Plant safety composite

Dippin' Dots Main Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Dippin' Dots Main Plant: 6.3 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2020

Dippin' Dots Main Plant's TCR rose 3.1 from 6.3 in 2019 to 9.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311520 · Paducah, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 239% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK P23
  • PHOTO Greenwood Ice Cream
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~257 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greenwood Ice Cream (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dippin' Dots Main Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dippin' Dots Main Plant averages 7.9 TCR (239% of the Ice cream manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dippin' Dots Main Plant TCR series: 2019=6.3 · 2020=9.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Dippin' Dots Main Plant falls in its industry

111 Ice cream manufacturing establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dippin' Dots Main Plant (257 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 Dippin' Dots Main Plant
Dippin' Dots Main Plant (257 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Dippin' Dots Main Plant has more employees than the Ice cream manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 9.4 6.9 15 0 0
2019 6.3 5.9 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311520 · KY · Paducah

111 Ice cream manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 198 employers in Paducah, 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 Greenwood Ice Cream 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SFG - St George UT - St. George 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rich Ice Cream Company 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dutch Creek Foods 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Newport Aquarium 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisville Manufacturing 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arkema Inc. Calvert City Plant 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Film Products Company, Inc. 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingram barge Company 2,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah Hospital 1,605 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah 1,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Heatlh Paducah 1,398 FTE
NAT-TCR Goodwill CFL - Rockledge 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR RRSC Middlesex 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pap Charlotte 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Klein Steel Service Inc. - RPC 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE FCS Group 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE E&C Freeport MEG 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental 257 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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