food product machinery manufacturing · Alabama

Dixie Grinders, Inc

Guntersville, AL · ~43 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dixie Grinders, Inc runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical food product machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dixie Grinders, Inc: 7.3 TCR = 221% of food product machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dixie Grinders, Inc safety composite

Dixie Grinders, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−12.9

2016→2024

Dixie Grinders, Inc injury rate improved

Dixie Grinders, Inc's TCR fell 12.9 from 18.8 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 18.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=18.8 · 2017=6.1 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=9.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Guntersville, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 221% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P13
  • PHOTO OLM Food Systems Mil…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OLM Food Systems Milford IA - 4042 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dixie Grinders, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dixie Grinders, Inc averages 7.3 TCR (221% of the food product machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dixie Grinders, Inc TCR series: 2016=18.8 · 2017=6.1 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=9.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=4 · 2022=4 · 2023=4 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Dixie Grinders, Inc falls in its industry

215 food product machinery manufac establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dixie Grinders, Inc (43 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dixie Grinders, Inc
Dixie Grinders, Inc (43 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Dixie Grinders, Inc has fewer employees than the food product machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 5.9 0.0 3 0 0
2023 4.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2021 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.8 0.0 4 0 0
2018 13.1 2.2 6 0 0
2017 6.1 0.0 3 0 0
2016 18.8 2.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · AL · Guntersville

215 food product machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 44 employers in Guntersville, AL · 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 OLM Food Systems Milford IA - 4042 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ProForm Fabrication, LLC 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wenger Manufacturing 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LAWRENCE EQUIPMENT BANNING 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Generation Fossil Gadsden Steam Plant 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Auburn Crew Headquarters 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hueytown Crew Headquarters - APC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarke-Washington Electric Membership Corporation 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farm Fresh Foods, LLC 1,612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrim's Pride CP 125 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1215 CP Guntersville, AL 1,492 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrim's Poultry Processing 1,410 FTE
NAT-TCR Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Gilman Healthcare Center 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonata Viera 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Express, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE A & R Construction Co 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thorsen's-Norquist, Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Bridge at Colorado Springs 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE BlueScope Coated Products / Metal Coaters 43 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.

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

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