Agricultural products trucking, local · Alabama

Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden

Gadsden, AL · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Agricultural products trucking, local workplace, earning a grade A.

Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden: 1.2 TCR = 26% of Agricultural products trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden safety composite

Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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 Live Haul Gadsden: 0.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden's TCR rose 3.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484220 · Gadsden, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/26
  • PHOTO Firestone Trucking
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Firestone Trucking (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden averages 1.2 TCR (26% of the Agricultural products trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden TCR series: 2016=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden falls in its industry

1,130 Agricultural products trucking establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 26 Agricultural products trucking employers in Alabama.

Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden (21 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden
Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden (21 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden has fewer employees than the Agricultural products trucking, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2020 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484220 · AL · Gadsden

1,130 Agricultural products trucking, local 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Firestone Trucking 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PFA Systems inc 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR KTL 53028 Newton 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden Bear Transportation & Marketing Co., Inc. 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods Breeder/Broilers Techs 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE IndusTREE Timber, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillsboro Gin Company Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods Gadsden Live Haul 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Gadsden Alabama 1,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gadsden Regional Medical Center 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant 1,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Gadsden Plant 850 FTE
NAT-TCR CARS Recon Inc Houston 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MPM - Metro 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rimfire Electric LLC. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Marr Crane & Rigging 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE WA033 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tft #593 Auburn Me 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bestway Milliken 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE TFT #508 Bridgeport 21 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: 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.