Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses · Massachusetts

Kayem Foods, Inc

Chelsea, MA · ~308 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kayem Foods, Inc runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Kayem Foods, Inc: 7.2 TCR = 218% of Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kayem Foods, Inc safety composite

Kayem Foods, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Kayem Foods, Inc: 6.6 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2023

Kayem Foods, Inc's TCR rose 1.2 from 6.6 in 2022 to 7.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Chelsea, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 218% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #9/13
  • PHOTO Stock Yards Birmingham
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~308 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stock Yards Birmingham (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kayem Foods, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kayem Foods, Inc averages 7.2 TCR (218% of the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Kayem Foods, Inc TCR series: 2022=6.6 · 2023=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kayem Foods, Inc falls in its industry

613 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 13 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce employers in Massachusetts.

Kayem Foods, Inc (308 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Kayem Foods, Inc
Kayem Foods, Inc (308 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Kayem Foods, Inc has more employees than the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry 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
2023 7.8 7.8 35 0 0
2022 6.6 6.6 29 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MA · Chelsea

613 Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 52 employers in Chelsea, MA · 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 Stock Yards Birmingham 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Husks Unlimited 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manley Meats, Inc 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSI Industries, LLC 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE McDonald Electrical Corp 308 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diana's Bakery 308 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nitto Avecia Milford 308 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dielectrics 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #32 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR State Garden, Inc. 425 FTE
CITY-NEAR 240055-BOS-CHELSEA CARRIER ANNEX 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastpointe Rehab LLC 270 FTE
NAT-TCR Monofrax LLC 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MOCORP, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Waters of Sweetwater 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR GEOTEX Construction Services 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Banjo Corporation 308 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roberts Hawaii School Bus, Oahu 308 FTE
NAT-SIZE Work & Outdoor Group Division 308 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Houstonian Club 308 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.