Powders, baking, manufacturing · Tennessee

Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients

Monterey, TN · ~57 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Powders, baking, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients: 2.7 TCR = 65% of Powders, baking, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients safety composite

Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients: 3.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2024

Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients's TCR rose 0.5 from 3.0 in 2020 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Monterey, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 65% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Sensient Flavors Har…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sensient Flavors Harbor Beach (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients averages 2.7 TCR (65% of the Powders, baking, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients TCR series: 2020=3 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients falls in its industry

335 Powders, baking, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Powders, baking, manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients (57 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients
Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients (57 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Hickory Specialties DBA Kerry Ingredients has fewer employees than the Powders, baking, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.2 3.5 3 0 0
2021 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2020 3.0 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · TN · Monterey

335 Powders, baking, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 9 employers in Monterey, 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 Sensient Flavors Harbor Beach 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ESM Technologies 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dawn Food Products - Louisville Manufacturing 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Star Yeast Company 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle TN Electric Membership Corporation (Downtown) 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Christman Company - Knoxville, TN 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Asphalt Paving Main Office 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concrete Polishing Technologies, Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Plant 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR LP Monterey, LLC- Standing Stone 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Royal Oak Enterprises Crossville LLC 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Royal Oak Enterprises 89 FTE
NAT-TCR Applied Physical Metrology Akron 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0141 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0639 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Consumer Products Division 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mad River 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exacta Laboratory Systems, LLC 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davco Roofing & Sheet Metal 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Anaheim 57 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.