Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses · California

Kruse & Son, Inc

Monrovia, CA · ~84 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kruse & Son, Inc runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

Kruse & Son, Inc: 5.8 TCR = 177% of Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kruse & Son, Inc safety composite

Kruse & Son, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kruse & Son, Inc: 4.1 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Kruse & Son, Inc's TCR rose 1.8 from 4.1 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Monrovia, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 177% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #21/43
  • PHOTO Land O' Frost Inc.-C…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Land O' Frost Inc.-Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kruse & Son, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kruse & Son, Inc averages 5.8 TCR (177% of the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Kruse & Son, Inc TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=10.8 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=8 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kruse & Son, Inc falls in its industry

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 43 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f employers in California.

Kruse & Son, Inc (84 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kruse & Son, Inc
Kruse & Son, Inc (84 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Kruse & Son, Inc has fewer employees than the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purcha median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 5.8 2.9 4 0 0
2023 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2022 8.0 8.0 6 0 0
2021 5.3 5.3 4 0 0
2020 10.8 10.8 8 0 0
2019 6.2 6.2 7 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 4 0 0
2017 4.1 4.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · CA · Monrovia

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 68 employers in Monrovia, 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 Land O' Frost Inc.-Chicago 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR QSC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ed Miniat LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Family Brands LLC 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE montalvo farms 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hansen Custom Farming, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilarides Dairy 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Service, LLC. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 593 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monrovia 02 Oral Care 695 FTE
CITY-NEAR WorleyParsons Group Inc - Monrovia 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Original Tommy's 500 FTE
NAT-TCR United Beverage Co. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 602NOR 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Broken Bow I Head Start/Early Learning Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rouses Market #66 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chemcut 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vocational Services, Inc. Shop #2 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toshiba Business Solutions - Rochester 180 84 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.