Processed meats manufacturing · Ohio

Fresh Sausage Specialists

Harrison, OH · ~182 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fresh Sausage Specialists runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Fresh Sausage Specialists: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fresh Sausage Specialists safety composite

Fresh Sausage Specialists scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−4.0

2020→2022

Fresh Sausage Specialists injury rate improved

Fresh Sausage Specialists's TCR fell 4.0 from 5.0 in 2020 to 1.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.0 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Harrison, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #10/25
  • PHOTO Smithfield Foods
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~182 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fresh Sausage Specialists in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fresh Sausage Specialists averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Fresh Sausage Specialists TCR series: 2020=5 · 2021=3 · 2022=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Fresh Sausage Specialists falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 25 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Fresh Sausage Specialists (182 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Fresh Sausage Specialists
Fresh Sausage Specialists (182 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Fresh Sausage Specialists has fewer employees than the Processed meats manufacturing median and a lower 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 1.1 0.5 2 0 0
2021 3.0 0.6 5 0 0
2020 5.0 3.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · OH · Harrison

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 37 employers in Harrison, OH · 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 Smithfield Foods 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield Foods 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amylu Foods LLC, 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Old Trapper Smoked Products, Inc 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stingray Pressure Pumping -Belmont,Ohio 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laibe Electric Co. 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Area Energy & Electric, Inc. 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE C286 Cincinnati PC 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR JTM Food Group 639 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Incorporated 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Denier Electric 364 FTE
CITY-NEAR 014-00907 347 FTE
NAT-TCR Dresser Natural Gas Solutions 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sedona office 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1229 - Lady Lake 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE KEMRON Environmental Services 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cenveo Smyrna 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warren Barr Lincolnshire 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE KFM Enterprises LLC 182 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, 2020. 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.