Cookies, filled, manufacturing · Kentucky

Ferrara Candy Company

Louisville, KY · ~374 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ferrara Candy Company runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cookies, filled, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Ferrara Candy Company: 2.0 TCR = 62% of Cookies, filled, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ferrara Candy Company safety composite

Ferrara Candy Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2019→2021

Ferrara Candy Company injury rate improved

Ferrara Candy Company's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.5 in 2019 to 1.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.5 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311821 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Cookie Tree
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~374 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cookie Tree (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ferrara Candy Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ferrara Candy Company averages 2.0 TCR (62% of the Cookies, filled, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ferrara Candy Company TCR series: 2019=2.5 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Ferrara Candy Company falls in its industry

166 Cookies, filled, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Cookies, filled, manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

Ferrara Candy Company (374 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ferrara Candy Company
Ferrara Candy Company (374 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ferrara Candy Company has more employees than the Cookies, filled, manufacturing median and a lower 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
2021 1.9 1.6 6 0 0
2020 1.7 1.4 6 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311821 · KY · Louisville

166 Cookies, filled, 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 Cookie Tree 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sugar Bowl Bakery Corsair 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City Manufacturing Facility 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sugar Bowl Bakery 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Calvert City 374 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jim Beam Brands Co-Clermont 375 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1426 375 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2628 373 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 Store #608 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CL Coatings, Inc - California 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Uftring Chrysler, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trulite Glass and Aluminum W20 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Colorado Line 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE 565470-Milw Priority Annex 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7001 LE Facility 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE SRG Global 374 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, 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.