Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses · Massachusetts

Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC

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North Andover, MA · ~283 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade A.

Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC: 0.9 TCR = 26% of Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC safety composite

Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC held a steady TCR band

Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.9 in 2023 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.9 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · North Andover, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 26% of ind

DART 0.8 DART
RANK #2/13
PHOTO Smithfield Packaged …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~283 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield Packaged Meats (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC averages 0.9 TCR (26% of the Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC TCR series: 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC falls in its industry

613 Meats (except poultry), cured establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 13 Meats (except poultry), cured employers in Massachusetts.

Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC (283 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC has more employees than the Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, 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
2024	0.8	0.8	2	0	0
2023	0.9	0.9	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MA · North Andover

613 Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 53 employers in North Andover, MA · 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	Smithfield Packaged Meats	OMAHA, NE	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NY Corporate Office	NEW YORK, NY	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bowling Green Plant	BOWLING GREEN, KY	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kraft Heinz Columbia MO	COLUMBIA, MO	0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Glynn Electric	PLYMOUTH	283 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Market Basket #78	ATHOL	283 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ROCHE BROS - WESTWOOD	WESTWOOD	283 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2122	AVON	283 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - BOS3	North Andover	1,743 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Market Basket #12	North Andover	420 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Edgewood Retirement Community, Inc.	North Andover	287 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bake'n Joy Foods North Andover Facility	North Andover	240 FTE
NAT-TCR	USA Hanover 7432 New Ridge Rd	Hanover, MD	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Otis Elevator Company-Maryland	Lanham, MD	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Atlas Roofing Corporation - Northglenn	Northglenn, CO	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	J.K. Manufacturing Co.	Bedford Park, IL	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Prisma Graphic	Phoenix, AZ	283 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Schreiber Foods Inc. - Grand Rapids	Grand Rapids, MI	283 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Flory Industries	Salida, CA	283 FTE
NAT-SIZE	All About Parking, Inc.	San Mateo, CA	283 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. 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.