Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Georgia

Home Chef - Atlanta

Lithonia, GA · ~353 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Home Chef - Atlanta runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade D.

Home Chef - Atlanta: 6.0 TCR = 147% of Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Home Chef - Atlanta safety composite

Home Chef - Atlanta scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−7.1

2017→2019

Home Chef - Atlanta injury rate improved

Home Chef - Atlanta's TCR fell 7.1 from 9.9 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.9 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Lithonia, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 147% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #12/16
  • PHOTO Golden Valley Natura…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~353 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Golden Valley Natural, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Home Chef - Atlanta in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Home Chef - Atlanta averages 6.0 TCR (147% of the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

Home Chef - Atlanta TCR series: 2017=9.9 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=2.9 · BLS 4.1

Where Home Chef - Atlanta falls in its industry

376 Prepared meals, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 16 Prepared meals, perishable, pa employers in Georgia.

Home Chef - Atlanta (353 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Home Chef - Atlanta
Home Chef - Atlanta (353 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Home Chef - Atlanta has more employees than the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2019 2.9 1.5 15 0 0
2018 5.3 4.5 22 2 0
2017 9.9 9.9 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · GA · Lithonia

376 Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale 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 Golden Valley Natural, LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freshly Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RMH Foods LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belmont Confections Plant 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milliken and Company-Longleaf Plant 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE L3Harris Military Displays - Alpharetta 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaGrange Make Site 354 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 The Master's Lawn Care 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 2150 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0017 1849 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Abs 0028 2514 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walsh & Kelly, Inc. - Corporate 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE DPI Specialty Foods - Mid Atlantic 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 1129 Colorado Ave 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kroeschell, Inc. 353 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.