Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

K. Heeps, LLC

Allentown, PA · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K. Heeps, LLC runs at 581% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

K. Heeps, LLC: 12.8 TCR = 581% of Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K. Heeps, LLC safety composite

K. Heeps, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−7.6

2022→2023

K. Heeps, LLC injury rate improved

K. Heeps, LLC's TCR fell 7.6 from 16.6 in 2022 to 9.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=16.6 · 2023=9.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Allentown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 581% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK P7
  • PHOTO Action Meat Distribu…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Action Meat Distributors, Inc (0.4 TCR gap)

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K. Heeps, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K. Heeps, LLC averages 12.8 TCR (581% of the Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

K. Heeps, LLC TCR series: 2022=16.6 · 2023=9 · BLS 2.2

Where K. Heeps, LLC falls in its industry

162 Cutting of purchased carcasses establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
K. Heeps, LLC (61 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate K. Heeps, LLC
K. Heeps, LLC (61 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

K. Heeps, LLC has fewer employees than the Cutting of purchased carcasses (except b median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2023 9.0 9.0 6 0 0
2022 16.6 6.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · PA · Allentown

162 Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, PA · 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 Action Meat Distributors, Inc 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vallia Foods LLC 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR T J Meat Packing Inc 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Meat & Provision Co 13.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Connellsville 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE McKeesport Service Center 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forino Co., LP 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hallstrom Construction Inc. 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR Green Mountain Rifle Barrel 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Maid Brigade of Arizona 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Osseo Healthcare, LLC 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Inland Empire Paper Company 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lincoln Center 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Americal Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Refresco Evansville 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE 05-43-00 Fort Wayne Dc 61 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.