Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries · Arkansas

Flowers Foods

Name: Flowers Foods Workplace Safety Data
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Batesville, AR · ~259 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 13.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Flowers Foods runs at 394% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade F.

Flowers Foods: 13.0 TCR = 394% of Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flowers Foods safety composite

Flowers Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 12.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Flowers Foods: 12.8 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2022

Flowers Foods's TCR rose 0.4 from 12.8 in 2021 to 13.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Batesville, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 394% of ind

DART 6.8 DART
RANK #9/9
PHOTO Spokane Bakery
BOOK 2y book
INJ 52 inj
SIZE ~259 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spokane Bakery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fremont Cafe &

13.3
This site

13
Spokane Bakery

13
Zingerman's Ba

12.8
328 Waldorf MD

12.6

What this shows Flowers Foods averages 13.0 TCR (394% of the Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

Flowers Foods TCR series: 2021=12.8 · 2022=13.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Flowers Foods falls in its industry

1,014 Bread and bread-type rolls mad establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Bread and bread-type rolls mad employers in Arkansas.

Flowers Foods (259 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Flowers Foods has more employees than the Bread and bread-type rolls made in comme median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2022	13.2	6.8	25	6	0
2021	12.8	9.6	27	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · AR · Batesville

1,014 Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 57 employers in Batesville, AR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Spokane Bakery	SPOKANE VALLEY, WA	13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Zingerman's Bakehouse, Inc.	ANN ARBOR, MI	12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fremont Cafe & Commissary	PORTLAND, OR	13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	328 Waldorf MD	WALDORF, MD	12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Milam Construction	EL DORADO	259 FTE
STATE-SIZE	4969	BENTONVILLE	259 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 91	FORREST CITY	259 FTE
STATE-SIZE	PWI 1 - Little Rock	LITTLE ROCK	260 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Batesville Processing	Batesville	6,286 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Peco Foods	Batesville	1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR	White River Medical Center	Batesville	1,286 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Future Fuel Chemical Company	Batesville	477 FTE
NAT-TCR	4795-PS-GSP-GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-GSP-PSAA	Greer, SC	13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	4795-PS-CAK-AKRON-CANTON-CAK-PSAA	North Canton, OH	13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Prescott House	North Andover, MA	13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	HG556	Tallahasse, FL	13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Coats Pharr HP	Lowell, NC	259 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital	Alexandria, LA	259 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dassault Aircraft Services - Wilmington	New Castle, DE	259 FTE
NAT-SIZE	9277-575 Canyons - Mountain	Park City, UT	259 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: 2022, 2021. 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.