Processed meats manufacturing · Alabama

Kelley Foods

Elba, AL · ~85 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kelley Foods runs at 495% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kelley Foods: 16.3 TCR = 495% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kelley Foods safety composite

Kelley Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Kelley Foods: 17.6 → 20.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 24.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2021

Kelley Foods's TCR rose 2.4 from 17.6 in 2016 to 20.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 24.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Elba, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.3 · 495% of ind

  • DART 10.0 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Ferdinand Inc
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 74 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ferdinand Inc (0.6 TCR gap)

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Kelley Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kelley Foods averages 16.3 TCR (495% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kelley Foods TCR series: 2016=17.6 · 2017=24.7 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=11.1 · 2020=15.7 · 2021=20 · BLS 3.3

Where Kelley Foods falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Alabama.

Kelley Foods (85 employees, TCR 16.3) 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 Kelley Foods
Kelley Foods (85 employees, TCR 16.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Kelley Foods has fewer employees than the Processed meats manufacturing 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
2021 20.0 10.0 14 0 0
2020 15.7 7.1 11 0 0
2019 11.1 5.3 21 0 0
2018 8.9 1.3 7 0 0
2017 24.7 1.4 18 0 0
2016 17.6 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · AL · Elba

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 10 employers in Elba, AL · 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 Ferdinand Inc 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Worth Meat Packers 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daily's Premium Meats St. Joseph, Mo. 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Old Hickory Smokehouse LLC 15.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shelby AL Truss 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied AEC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARCH Tuscaloosa 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Cities Manufacturing, Inc. 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dorsey Trailer, LLC 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pitts Trailers - Elba Dorsey 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Food Giant #638 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inzi Controls Alabama Inc 142 FTE
NAT-TCR Mentor Health and Rehabilitation Center, inc 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Gibson Health & Rehabilitation 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 416244-Oil City Po 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 240046-Bos-Roslindale Sta 16.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Renaissance Marquis 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ely Manor 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Admore Inc 2401 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centerville Elementary School 85 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.