Salad dressings manufacturing · Massachusetts

Kens Foods Inc

Marlborough, MA · ~552 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kens Foods Inc runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Salad dressings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kens Foods Inc: 2.7 TCR = 67% of Salad dressings manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kens Foods Inc safety composite

Kens Foods Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

−0.4

2016→2023

Kens Foods Inc injury rate improved

Kens Foods Inc's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.4 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.4 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.5 · 2023=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Marlborough, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 67% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK P61
  • PHOTO Richelieu Foods Inc-…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~552 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Richelieu Foods Inc-Elk grove Village (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kens Foods Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kens Foods Inc averages 2.7 TCR (67% of the Salad dressings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kens Foods Inc TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.5 · 2023=3.1 · BLS 4.1

Where Kens Foods Inc falls in its industry

134 Salad dressings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kens Foods Inc (552 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 Kens Foods Inc
Kens Foods Inc (552 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Kens Foods Inc has more employees than the Salad dressings manufacturing median and a lower 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
2023 3.1 2.1 16 3 0
2019 1.5 0.8 10 2 0
2018 2.1 1.2 15 1 0
2017 3.5 2.5 18 4 0
2016 3.4 2.4 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · MA · Marlborough

134 Salad dressings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 121 employers in Marlborough, 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 Richelieu Foods Inc-Elk grove Village 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden State Foods - Burleson 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mizkan America 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Las Vegas Kens 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5015 551 FTE
STATE-SIZE MA - Virtual - D 551 FTE
STATE-SIZE 319B Allston Street 550 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc - Cocasset 555 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon - Marlborough 2,332 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Marlborough_MA 2,054 FTE
CITY-NEAR Field 1,438 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hologic : Marlborough Campus 700 FTE
NAT-TCR Chapel Oaks 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterbury Swiss Automatics 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR New Hope Services, Inc - Center 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage of Red Cloud 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE McEntire Produce inc 552 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plastikon Industries 552 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0179 - Tracy Ca (Dry) Depot 552 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aurora Psychiatric Hospital 552 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, 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.