Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries · Arkansas
Flowers Foods
Batesville, AR · ~259 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 13.0
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
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.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 13.0
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 52
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Flowers Foods's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Flowers Foods's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Flowers Foods falls in its industry
1,140 Bread and bread-type rolls mad establishmentsSafer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.
Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Bread and bread-type rolls mad employers in Arkansas.
Flowers Foods has an average TCR of 13.0, which is 394% of the industry average (3.3) for Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries. This is significantly worse than average.
The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.
Trend analysis for Flowers Foods
Between 2021 and 2022, Flowers Foods's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 12.8 to 13.2 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 3% increase across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 12.8, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 13.2, a spread of 0.4 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 2 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, Flowers Foods recorded 52 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Flowers Foods's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311812 - Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2022)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
16 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 470,535 hours worked = 6.80 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Flowers Foods (this establishment) | 12.99 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Commercial bakeries industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 311812 |
| Arkansas state avg (all industries) | 3.83 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Flowers Foods to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2022: 31 reportable incidents · 25 injuries, 6 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 28 reportable incidents · 27 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
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 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Flowers Foods's reported OSHA injury record versus its Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 394% of the Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries benchmark, Flowers Foods reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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