Box lunches (for sale off premises) manufacturing · Maryland

Kettle Cuisine

Savage, MD · ~165 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kettle Cuisine runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Box lunches (for sale off premises) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kettle Cuisine: 5.0 TCR = 123% of Box lunches (for sale off premises) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kettle Cuisine safety composite

Kettle Cuisine scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−2.8

2023→2024

Kettle Cuisine injury rate improved

Kettle Cuisine's TCR fell 2.8 from 6.4 in 2023 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.4 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Savage, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 123% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Illinois PPP
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~165 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Illinois PPP (0.0 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 5.0 TCR (123% of the Box lunches (for sale off premises) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kettle Cuisine TCR series: 2023=6.4 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Kettle Cuisine falls in its industry

376 Box lunches (for sale off prem establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Box lunches (for sale off prem employers in Maryland.

Kettle Cuisine (165 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kettle Cuisine
Kettle Cuisine (165 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Kettle Cuisine has fewer employees than the Box lunches (for sale off premises) manu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 3.6 3.6 7 0 0
2023 6.4 6.4 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · MD · Savage

376 Box lunches (for sale off premises) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 8 employers in Savage, MD · 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 Illinois PPP 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RESER'S - TOPEKA CROSSROADS 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Fresh Cuts 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Made Meals, LLC 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hanover Berry Global 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE 100159 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4047 SOUTH CENTRAL-BALTIMORE 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reddy Logistics LLC 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Freshly Inc. 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Pools, LLC 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Co 18 Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc. 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Intralox, LLC - Savage, MD 140 FTE
NAT-TCR Cooper Enterprises Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 143015-San Bernardino | CA | SAN-510 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Elliott Aviation of Des Moines 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pitt Ohio - Utica 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE AbbVie - Dublin 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robertson Construction 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quirch Foods - Medley 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ocean Avenue LEARNing Academy 165 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. 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.