Soups (except seafood) canning · Massachusetts

Kettle Cuisine

Lynn, MA · ~451 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kettle Cuisine runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Soups (except seafood) canning workplace, earning a grade C.

Kettle Cuisine: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Soups (except seafood) canning BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kettle Cuisine safety composite

Kettle Cuisine scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−3.7

2016→2024

Kettle Cuisine injury rate improved

Kettle Cuisine's TCR fell 3.7 from 5.6 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.6 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311422 · Lynn, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK P52
  • PHOTO Hormel foods Beloit
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 163 inj
  • SIZE ~451 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hormel foods Beloit (0.2 TCR gap)

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Kettle Cuisine in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kettle Cuisine averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Soups (except seafood) canning BLS benchmark).

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

Kettle Cuisine TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=3 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Kettle Cuisine falls in its industry

67 Soups (except seafood) canning establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kettle Cuisine (451 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 Kettle Cuisine
Kettle Cuisine (451 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Kettle Cuisine has more employees than the Soups (except seafood) canning median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 2.0 2.0 12 0 0
2023 3.5 3.5 21 0 0
2022 4.3 4.3 21 0 0
2021 4.6 4.6 23 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 23 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 13 0 0
2018 2.8 2.4 14 0 0
2017 3.1 3.1 14 0 0
2016 5.6 5.1 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311422 · MA · Lynn

67 Soups (except seafood) canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 54 employers in Lynn, 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 Hormel foods Beloit 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seneca 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Augusta WI Plant 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Foods 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE MACOM Lowell 451 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ironwood-HQ 451 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riverbend Medical Group 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE MASPR - SPRINGFIELD 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Lynn, MA 2,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Lynn MA 2,628 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greater Lynn Senior Services, Inc 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Old Neighborohood Foods 377 FTE
NAT-TCR Jayhawk Boxes Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Holyoke Massachusetts 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brown Spirnkler Corpration (Louisville, KY) 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Creative Automation Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Embraer Aircraft Maintenance Services, LLC - BNA 451 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Springs 451 FTE
NAT-SIZE PMX Industries, Inc. 451 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supreme Maintenance Organization 451 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, 2020, 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.