Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats · Georgia

John Soules Foods

Gainesville, GA · ~519 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John Soules Foods runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats workplace, earning a grade A.

John Soules Foods: 1.6 TCR = 50% of Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John Soules Foods safety composite

John Soules Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−0.7

2023→2024

John Soules Foods injury rate improved

John Soules Foods's TCR fell 0.7 from 2.0 in 2023 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.0 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Gainesville, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #18/67
  • PHOTO 2nd Street, P-19719
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~519 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2nd Street, P-19719 (0.0 TCR gap)

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John Soules Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John Soules Foods averages 1.6 TCR (50% of the Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats BLS benchmark).

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

John Soules Foods TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where John Soules Foods falls in its industry

509 Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 67 Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, employers in Georgia.

John Soules Foods (519 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate John Soules Foods
John Soules Foods (519 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

John Soules Foods has fewer employees than the Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.3 0.4 9 0 0
2023 2.0 0.4 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · GA · Gainesville

509 Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 306 employers in Gainesville, 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 2nd Street, P-19719 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hurlock Feedmill & Hatchery #26 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peco Foods Processing Plant 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Plant 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Knapp 519 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harry & David 519 FTE
STATE-SIZE BWAY Homerville 519 FTE
STATE-SIZE Center for Advanced Pediatrics 519 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc. 5,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kubota Manufacturing of America Corporation 1,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poultry Processing 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mar-Jac Poultry, Inc Processing Plant 1,190 FTE
NAT-TCR MOM's Organic Market - Frederick 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 5220-Las Cruces Hauling 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Carrier Commercial Services (Houston) 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cornerstone Masonry, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 151 Foods, LLC 519 FTE
NAT-SIZE Future Care Health Services 519 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landis Homes 519 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2410 - Oahu-Honolulu Salt Lake 519 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.