Peanut butter manufacturing · Kentucky

J.M. Smucker, LLC

Lexington, KY · ~270 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J.M. Smucker, LLC runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Peanut butter manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

J.M. Smucker, LLC: 1.1 TCR = 28% of Peanut butter manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J.M. Smucker, LLC safety composite

J.M. Smucker, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

J.M. Smucker, LLC: 0.7 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

J.M. Smucker, LLC's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.7 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311911 · Lexington, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO Lexington JIF Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~270 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lexington JIF Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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J.M. Smucker, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J.M. Smucker, LLC averages 1.1 TCR (28% of the Peanut butter manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

J.M. Smucker, LLC TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=0.7 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 4.1

Where J.M. Smucker, LLC falls in its industry

150 Peanut butter manufacturing establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Peanut butter manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

J.M. Smucker, LLC (270 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate J.M. Smucker, LLC
J.M. Smucker, LLC (270 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0

J.M. Smucker, LLC has more employees than the Peanut butter manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 1.7 0.7 5 0 0
2018 0.7 0.0 2 0 0
2017 1.4 0.7 4 0 0
2016 0.7 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311911 · KY · Lexington

150 Peanut butter manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, KY · 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 Lexington JIF Plant 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BARCELONA NUT COMPANY 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wyoming 3750 Manufacturing Facility 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hamakua Macadamia Nut Co. 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flynn Brothers Contracting 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE White Drive Motors & Steering 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 507 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE KYBOW - BOWLING GREEN 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR Gould Construction, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Capital Hotel 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Crystal Group Inc 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Visit Orlando 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE MGX Equipment Services 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mission Bell Mfg, Inc. 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gonnella Frozen Products 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weeden Creek 270 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, 2018, 2017, 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.