Chili pepper or powder manufacturing · Georgia

Griffith Foods - Lithonia

Lithonia, GA · ~154 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Griffith Foods - Lithonia runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chili pepper or powder manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Griffith Foods - Lithonia: 4.4 TCR = 108% of Chili pepper or powder manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Griffith Foods - Lithonia safety composite

Griffith Foods - Lithonia scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−0.7

2016→2023

Griffith Foods - Lithonia injury rate improved

Griffith Foods - Lithonia's TCR fell 0.7 from 5.7 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=5.8 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Lithonia, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 108% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK P40
  • PHOTO Urbana - Aura Cacia
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Urbana - Aura Cacia (0.1 TCR gap)

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Griffith Foods - Lithonia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Griffith Foods - Lithonia averages 4.4 TCR (108% of the Chili pepper or powder manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Griffith Foods - Lithonia TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=5.8 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=5 · BLS 4.1

Where Griffith Foods - Lithonia falls in its industry

200 Chili pepper or powder manufac establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Griffith Foods - Lithonia (154 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Griffith Foods - Lithonia
Griffith Foods - Lithonia (154 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Griffith Foods - Lithonia has more employees than the Chili pepper or powder 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
2023 5.0 5.0 8 0 0
2022 3.1 2.5 5 0 0
2019 5.8 5.8 9 0 0
2018 2.4 0.6 4 0 0
2016 5.7 5.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · GA · Lithonia

200 Chili pepper or powder manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 77 employers in Lithonia, GA · 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 Urbana - Aura Cacia 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yost Foods 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Asenzya Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trademark 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Blackshear 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sequent Energy Management 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Atlanta 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milliken & Company Pine Mountain Plant 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emory Hillandale Hospital - EHC 787 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Chef - Atlanta GA 704 FTE
CITY-NEAR T&J Industries Development and Contracting, Inc 651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Container Lithonia 479 FTE
NAT-TCR Anatometal LLC 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Auburn Ravine Terrace 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Christiana Mall 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bountiful Farms Nursery 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Douglas County Forest Products 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 16005 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE RJ Mechanical Inc. 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9095-ITO 154 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: 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.