Salad dressings manufacturing · Massachusetts

Ken's Foods

Marlborough, MA · ~600 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ken's Foods runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Salad dressings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Ken's Foods: 1.6 TCR = 39% of Salad dressings manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ken's Foods safety composite

Ken's Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Ken's Foods held a steady TCR band

Ken's Foods's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.7 in 2021 to 1.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.7 · 2022=1.3 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 39% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK P86
  • PHOTO Nashville Stratas Fo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~600 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nashville Stratas Foods (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 1.6 TCR (39% of the Salad dressings 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: 2021=1.7 · 2022=1.3 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 4.1

Where Ken's Foods falls in its industry

134 Salad dressings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ken's Foods (600 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 (600 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 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
2024 1.9 1.9 10 0 0
2022 1.3 1.3 9 0 0
2021 1.7 1.7 12 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 Nashville Stratas Foods 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allen Division 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR French's Food Company 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Foods, LLC. 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Home Market Foods 600 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - BOS4 602 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marlborough Hospital 597 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hockomock Area YMCA 597 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 Golden Empire Towing, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bales Construction Co Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lloyd W. Aubry Co., Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Everlan Clemson, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Probation 600 FTE
NAT-SIZE SKI Realty Inc Corporation (SKR) 600 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phillips 66 Los Angeles 600 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aluminum Boats (Lund/Crestliner) New York Mills 600 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, 2022, 2021. 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.