Manufacturer Sausage · Tennessee

James Meat Company Inc

Cookeville, TN · ~42 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

James Meat Company Inc runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Manufacturer Sausage workplace, earning a grade D.

James Meat Company Inc: 5.1 TCR = 155% of Manufacturer Sausage BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James Meat Company Inc safety composite

James Meat Company Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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

−12.5

2019→2024

James Meat Company Inc injury rate improved

James Meat Company Inc's TCR fell 12.5 from 12.5 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=12.5 · 2020=10.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Cookeville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/17
  • PHOTO JBS Greeley Value Ad…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JBS Greeley Value Added (0.0 TCR gap)

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James Meat Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows James Meat Company Inc averages 5.1 TCR (155% of the Manufacturer Sausage BLS benchmark).

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

James Meat Company Inc TCR series: 2019=12.5 · 2020=10.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where James Meat Company Inc falls in its industry

613 Manufacturer Sausage establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 17 Manufacturer Sausage employers in Tennessee.

James Meat Company Inc (42 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate James Meat Company Inc
James Meat Company Inc (42 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

James Meat Company Inc has fewer employees than the Manufacturer Sausage median and a higher 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 8.1 5.4 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.2 10.2 2 0 0
2019 12.5 9.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · TN · Cookeville

613 Manufacturer Sausage 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 JBS Greeley Value Added 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haltom City Plant 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Family Food Products, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSI Group - Ashland 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benton County Electric System 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Citizens Gas Utility District 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Providence Builders 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCC Johnson City 42 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 Oaks at Fayetteville 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Florida Express Environmental 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Elevator Interior Design, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalman Manufacturing Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pond Cove Millwork, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montgomery Electric Inc 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arden Courts of Sarasota 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Angelo Luppino, Inc. 42 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, 2019. 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.