Dog food manufacturing · Maryland

Kelly Foods Corporation

Berlin, MD · ~127 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kelly Foods Corporation runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dog food manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kelly Foods Corporation: 7.0 TCR = 178% of Dog food manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kelly Foods Corporation safety composite

Kelly Foods Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Kelly Foods Corporation: 4.5 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

Kelly Foods Corporation's TCR rose 2.6 from 4.5 in 2017 to 7.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Berlin, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK P17
  • PHOTO VIC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 59 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VIC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kelly Foods Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kelly Foods Corporation averages 7.0 TCR (178% of the Dog food manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kelly Foods Corporation TCR series: 2017=4.5 · 2018=11.3 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=4 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Kelly Foods Corporation falls in its industry

302 Dog food manufacturing establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kelly Foods Corporation (127 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kelly Foods Corporation
Kelly Foods Corporation (127 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Kelly Foods Corporation has more employees than the Dog food manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 7.1 3.6 10 0 0
2023 4.0 2.7 6 0 0
2022 5.5 1.4 8 0 0
2021 9.3 3.9 12 0 0
2018 11.3 8.6 17 0 0
2017 4.5 3.2 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · MD · Berlin

302 Dog food manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 20 employers in Berlin, MD · 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 VIC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feed Mill 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ravenna 270 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Pet Products 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northwest Station 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE M&M Welding - Mount Airy 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechanical Engineering & Construction Corporation-MD 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crispy Bagel Company, Inc. 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atlantic General Hospital 946 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2560 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2560 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 125 FTE
NAT-TCR Isometrics Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Patterson TMP operating LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DCB4 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Minnesota Department of Transportation District 7 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meadow Grove 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3268 - Manhattan Hells Kitchen 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE ECO Service/ ECO Pallets 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE ComSonics, Inc. VA 127 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, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017. 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.