Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) · Alabama

Keystone Foods Gadsden Al

Name: Keystone Foods Gadsden Al Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Gadsden, AL · ~471 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Keystone Foods Gadsden Al runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) workplace, earning a grade B.

Keystone Foods Gadsden Al: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Keystone Foods Gadsden Al safety composite

Keystone Foods Gadsden Al scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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).

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−1.0

2016→2017

Keystone Foods Gadsden Al injury rate improved

Keystone Foods Gadsden Al's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.6 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.6 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.6 · 2017=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Gadsden, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

DART 1.3 DART
RANK #21/55
PHOTO Pine Manor
BOOK 2y book
INJ 20 inj
SIZE ~471 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pine Manor (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Keystone Foods Gadsden Al averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS benchmark).

Keystone Foods Gadsden Al TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Keystone Foods Gadsden Al falls in its industry

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, f establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 55 Chickens, processing, fresh, f employers in Alabama.

Keystone Foods Gadsden Al (471 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Keystone Foods Gadsden Al has fewer employees than the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, can median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2017	1.6	1.3	8	1	0
2016	2.6	2.3	12	3	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AL · Gadsden

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 82 employers in Gadsden, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Pine Manor	ORLAND, IN	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Georgetown Plant	GEORGETOWN, DE	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tip Top Poultry, Inc.	ROCKMART, GA	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Alatrade Foods Inc - Phenix City	PHENIX CITY, AL	2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Decatur East	DECATUR	471 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Heat Transfer Products Group, LLC	SCOTTSBORO	472 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kasai North America, Inc. - Talladega, AL	TALLADEGA	470 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hanwha Advanced Materials America LLC. Opelika	OPELIKA	470 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Goodyear Gadsden Alabama	Gadsden	1,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Gadsden Regional Medical Center	Gadsden	1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant	Gadsden	1,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Koch Foods Gadsden Plant	Gadsden	850 FTE
NAT-TCR	42341a - Dover	Dover, NJ	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Coral Gables Holdings, LLC	Miami, FL	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chop Bcc	Philadelphia, PA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kaman Aerostructures - Wichita	Wichita, KS	2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	MS - Kennedy Space Center, FL - 1KSFL	Kennedy Space Center, FL	471 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DNVRCOFO	Denver, CO	471 FTE
NAT-SIZE	San Antonio Food	San Antonio, TX	471 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Supply Chain : Asheville, NC	Asheville, NC	471 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: 2017, 2016. 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.