Rice drying · Louisiana

Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC

Mer Rouge, LA · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Rice drying workplace, earning a grade D.

Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC: 7.2 TCR = 160% of Rice drying BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC safety composite

Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC: 6.6 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.22× in 2023

Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC's TCR rose 1.2 from 6.6 in 2022 to 7.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Mer Rouge, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 160% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P20
  • PHOTO MALAGA INVENTORY
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MALAGA INVENTORY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC averages 7.2 TCR (160% of the Rice drying BLS benchmark).

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

Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC TCR series: 2022=6.6 · 2023=7.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC falls in its industry

666 Rice drying establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC (51 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC
Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC (51 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC has fewer employees than the Rice drying median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 1.6 5 0 0
2022 6.6 4.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · LA · Mer Rouge

666 Rice drying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 3 employers in Mer Rouge, LA · 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 MALAGA INVENTORY 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Fruit Company 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Reach Pack 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITC Services- Pasco 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 7334-America Styrenics 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE FJ Burnell, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Satco Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA LA Harahan 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goldman Equipment, LLC - Mer Rouge 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mer-Rouge 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Town of Haddam 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-050-Peru ( RK-050 ) 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 014-Ff01-Fond Du Lac 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohio Metal Technologies, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE C&B-Exactitude Cumberland-Foreside ME 260 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at National Resource Bench 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Meadows Design & Landscaping, Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Route 9W 10-16, Esopus (Port Ewen), NY 51 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.