Other Animal Food Manufacturing · Kentucky

Franklin Feedmill

Franklin, KY · ~32 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Franklin Feedmill runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Animal Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Franklin Feedmill: 5.3 TCR = 137% of Other Animal Food Manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Franklin Feedmill safety composite

Franklin Feedmill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Franklin Feedmill: 0.0 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 17.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Franklin Feedmill's TCR rose 6.7 from 0.0 in 2019 to 6.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 17.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Franklin, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 137% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #17/23
  • PHOTO Croton Mill
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Croton Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Franklin Feedmill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Franklin Feedmill averages 5.3 TCR (137% of the Other Animal Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Franklin Feedmill TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.6 · 2022=17.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 3.9

Where Franklin Feedmill falls in its industry

756 Other Animal Food Manufacturin establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 23 Other Animal Food Manufacturin employers in Kentucky.

Franklin Feedmill (32 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Franklin Feedmill
Franklin Feedmill (32 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Franklin Feedmill has fewer employees than the Other Animal Food Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.7 6.7 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 17.7 17.7 0 7 0
2021 7.6 7.6 1 2 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · KY · Franklin

756 Other Animal Food Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 62 employers in Franklin, 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 Croton Mill 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Auburndale Feed Mill 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MFA Feed Mill - Aurora 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peco Foods Inc.- Lake Feed Mill 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Limestone Transmission Substation 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schaefer General Contracting Services 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ray Black & Son, Inc. 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE OMNI Commercial LLC 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tractor Supply Company Distribution Center 0499 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin Precision Industry, Inc. 562 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global Franklin KY 549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global Group 504 FTE
NAT-TCR Hards Fabrication & Welding, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Little Rock Shop AR FXFE-LITS 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmond VA FXFE-RCH 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Norcen Industries Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakefield Veterinary Group - 125 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thomas Concrete of Georgia Kennesaw 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morrow County 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roselawn 32 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. 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.