Flour, blended or self-rising, made from purchased flour · Tennessee

HB Specialty Foods Cookeville

Cookeville, TN · ~36 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HB Specialty Foods Cookeville runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Flour, blended or self-rising, made from purchased flour workplace, earning a grade D.

HB Specialty Foods Cookeville: 5.0 TCR = 153% of Flour, blended or self-rising, made from purchased flour BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HB Specialty Foods Cookeville safety composite

HB Specialty Foods Cookeville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

HB Specialty Foods Cookeville: 5.2 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.39× in 2023

HB Specialty Foods Cookeville's TCR rose 1.8 from 5.2 in 2018 to 7.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311824 · Cookeville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 153% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Deseret Mills & Pasta
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Deseret Mills & Pasta (0.0 TCR gap)

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HB Specialty Foods Cookeville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HB Specialty Foods Cookeville averages 5.0 TCR (153% of the Flour, blended or self-rising, made from purchased flour BLS benchmark).

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

HB Specialty Foods Cookeville TCR series: 2018=5.2 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=7 · BLS 3.3

Where HB Specialty Foods Cookeville falls in its industry

170 Flour, blended or self-rising, establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Flour, blended or self-rising, employers in Tennessee.

HB Specialty Foods Cookeville (36 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate HB Specialty Foods Cookeville
HB Specialty Foods Cookeville (36 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9

HB Specialty Foods Cookeville has fewer employees than the Flour, blended or self-rising, made from median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 7.0 7.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 11.3 5.6 4 0 0
2020 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2019 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2018 5.2 5.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311824 · TN · Cookeville

170 Flour, blended or self-rising, made from purchased flour employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 135 employers in Cookeville, TN · 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 Deseret Mills & Pasta 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nutritional Resources Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pasta Sonoma, LLC 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chester Cake 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benton 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waynesboro Office, 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0000000931 WATER/SEWER-WATER FCLTY MAINT 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chris Woods Construction Company, Inc. 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSC -COPORATE SERVICE CENTER 974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cookeville CSC 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cookeville CKV 4 855 FTE
CITY-NEAR PUTNAM COUNTY LOCAL GOVERNMENT 773 FTE
NAT-TCR Rapid City Medical Center, LLP 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NCDC2 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KCM Cabinets Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bostik Fort Worth 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Red Cross - 113 W Park Dr 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE PRC Industrial Supply 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hawaii Petroleum, LLC.-Administration-Maui 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orange Hospice 36 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.