Soy sauce manufacturing · California

Kikkoman Foods Inc.

Folsom, CA · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kikkoman Foods Inc. runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Soy sauce manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kikkoman Foods Inc.: 7.4 TCR = 181% of Soy sauce manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kikkoman Foods Inc. safety composite

Kikkoman Foods Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−10.8

2017→2019

Kikkoman Foods Inc. injury rate improved

Kikkoman Foods Inc.'s TCR fell 10.8 from 12.8 in 2017 to 2.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.8 · 2019=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Folsom, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 181% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #13/17
  • PHOTO Litehouse Ella Facil…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Litehouse Ella Facility (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kikkoman Foods Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kikkoman Foods Inc. averages 7.4 TCR (181% of the Soy sauce manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kikkoman Foods Inc. TCR series: 2017=12.8 · 2019=2 · BLS 4.1

Where Kikkoman Foods Inc. falls in its industry

134 Soy sauce manufacturing establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 17 Soy sauce manufacturing employers in California.

Kikkoman Foods Inc. (30 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 Kikkoman Foods Inc.
Kikkoman Foods Inc. (30 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Kikkoman Foods Inc. has fewer employees than the Soy sauce manufacturing median and a higher 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
2019 2.0 2.0 2 0 0
2017 12.8 3.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · CA · Folsom

134 Soy sauce manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 103 employers in Folsom, CA · 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 Litehouse Ella Facility 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar - Nixa 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Choice Brands, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pepper Source Rogers 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE BZNUR 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1780 San Juan Rd. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charter Oaks 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfields Turf, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Folsom Campus 6,164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountain F. Enterprises, Inc. 1,009 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030162 813 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Folsom 735 FTE
NAT-TCR Advanced Disposal - Moody Hauling 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0000000400 Parks/Rec 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassionate Care Hospice of Alexandria 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pheasant Wood 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Henges Insulation and Fireplaces 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edison, NJ (NY District Staff) 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vortex Turnkey Solutions LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE MRP Spokane, LLC 30 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: 2019, 2017. 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.