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

Koch Foods-Gainesville

Name: Koch Foods-Gainesville Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Gainesville, GA · ~398 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Koch Foods-Gainesville runs at 57% 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.

Koch Foods-Gainesville: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koch Foods-Gainesville safety composite

Koch Foods-Gainesville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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).

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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-Gainesville: 1.3 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2024

Koch Foods-Gainesville's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.3 in 2023 to 2.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Gainesville, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

DART 0.5 DART
RANK #21/67
PHOTO Winesburg Plant
BOOK 2y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~398 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Winesburg Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.9
Winesburg Plan

1.9
Union Springs

1.9
Alatrade-Boaz

1.9
Concord Comple

1.9

What this shows Koch Foods-Gainesville averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS benchmark).

Koch Foods-Gainesville TCR series: 2023=1.3 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Koch Foods-Gainesville falls in its industry

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, f establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 67 Chickens, processing, fresh, f employers in Georgia.

Koch Foods-Gainesville (398 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Koch Foods-Gainesville 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
2024	2.4	0.5	8	2	0
2023	1.3	1.1	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · GA · Gainesville

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 306 employers in Gainesville, 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	Winesburg Plant	WINESBURG, OH	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Union Springs Plant	UNION SPRINGS, AL	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Alatrade-Boaz	BOAZ, AL	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Concord Complex	CONCORD, NC	1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Champion Specialty Services, LLC	ALPHARETTA	398 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hyundai Transys Gerogia Powertrain Inc.	WEST POINT	398 FTE
STATE-SIZE	5085 LAKE PARK RDC	LAKE PARK	398 FTE
STATE-SIZE	GA0019V3	ALPHARETTA	398 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc.	Gainesville	5,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kubota Manufacturing of America Corporation	Gainesville	1,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Poultry Processing	Gainesville	1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mar-Jac Poultry, Inc Processing Plant	Gainesville	1,190 FTE
NAT-TCR	White S Path-Ma55	South Yarmouth, MA	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Breakthru Beverage Virginia	Sandston, VA	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Stanley Martin Homes, LLC	Reston, VA	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hutchinson,KS	Hutchinson, KS	1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Worc Southbridge Street-Ma61	Worcester, MA	398 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NASCAR International, LLC	Daytona Beach, FL	398 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hyatt Regency Dallas	Dallas, TX	398 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Altice USA - Tyler	Tyler, TX	398 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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