Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) · Georgia

Koch Foods-Cumming

Name: Koch Foods-Cumming Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Cumming, GA · ~1,138 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Koch Foods-Cumming runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) workplace, earning a grade A.

Koch Foods-Cumming: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koch Foods-Cumming safety composite

Koch Foods-Cumming scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Koch Foods-Cumming: 1.1 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.12× in 2024

Koch Foods-Cumming's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.1 in 2023 to 1.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Cumming, GA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

DART 0.2 DART
RANK #10/67
PHOTO Fieldale Farms - Fur…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~1,138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fieldale Farms - Further Processing Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Koch Foods-Cumming averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) BLS benchmark).

Koch Foods-Cumming TCR series: 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Koch Foods-Cumming falls in its industry

509 Canning poultry (except baby a establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 67 Canning poultry (except baby a employers in Georgia.

Koch Foods-Cumming (1,138 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Koch Foods-Cumming has more employees than the Canning poultry (except baby and pet foo 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
2024	1.5	0.2	2	16	0
2023	1.1	0.8	12	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · GA · Cumming

509 Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 139 employers in Cumming, GA · 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	Fieldale Farms - Further Processing Plant	GAINESVILLE, GA	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Morganton Plant	MORGANTON, NC	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	West Central Turkeys	PELICAN RAPIDS, MN	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Marshville Plant	MARSHVILLE, NC	1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	St. Joseph's Hospital	SAVANNAH	1,138 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pilgrim's Pride Fresh Processing	ATHENS	1,137 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WellStar North Fulton Hospital	ROSWELL	1,137 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Athens Facility	ATHENS	1,140 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northside Forsyth	Cumming	4,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northside Hospital Forsyth	Cumming	3,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cumming Plant	Cumming	1,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Koch Foods of Cumming	Cumming	1,000 FTE
NAT-TCR	Owens Corning	Starr, SC	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Halethorpe 10167	Halethorpe, MD	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Weaver Consultants Group, LLC	Chicago, IL	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fairless Plant	Fairless Hills, PA	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ADTRAN Holdings	Huntsville, AL	1,138 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Primary Beef - Wyalusing PA	Wyalusing, PA	1,138 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hartnell College Main Campus	Salinas, CA	1,139 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hartnell College East Campus	Salinas, CA	1,139 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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