Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing · Indiana

Ken's Foods

Lebanon, IN · ~173 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ken's Foods runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ken's Foods: 3.9 TCR = 94% of Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ken's Foods safety composite

Ken's Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−5.0

2018→2024

Ken's Foods injury rate improved

Ken's Foods's TCR fell 5.0 from 6.5 in 2018 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.5 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Lebanon, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 94% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK P47
  • PHOTO Ventura Foods, LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ventura Foods, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ken's Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ken's Foods averages 3.9 TCR (94% of the Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ken's Foods TCR series: 2018=6.5 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Ken's Foods falls in its industry

134 Cheese based salad dressing ma establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ken's Foods (173 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ken's Foods
Ken's Foods (173 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Ken's Foods has more employees than the Cheese based salad dressing manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2024 1.5 0.8 4 0 0
2023 4.5 4.0 11 0 0
2022 4.9 4.9 11 0 0
2021 1.9 1.4 4 0 0
2018 6.5 3.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · IN · Lebanon

134 Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 76 employers in Lebanon, IN · 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 Ventura Foods, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Foods International USA Inc Bernhardt 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCB Duluth 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR OTAFUKU FOODS, INC 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Safway Services, LLC - Merrillville 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avery Dennison 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydro Connersville 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR IN - Nike Rebound 1,703 FTE
CITY-NEAR IN - Nike Returns 1,187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora Parts & Accessories, LLC 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lebanon, IN 378 FTE
NAT-TCR HealthTrust - West Florida Supply Chain 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Two Toyota of Chandler 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ace Hardware Round Lake Home Center 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tiger Delivery Logistics 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE D7 District HQ 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE D4 District HQ 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE 168 - Cold Spring KY 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Microchip Technology Inc. Lawrence 173 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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