Canned nuts manufacturing · Kentucky

Lexington JIF Plant

Lexington, KY · ~267 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lexington JIF Plant runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Canned nuts manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Lexington JIF Plant: 1.1 TCR = 28% of Canned nuts manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lexington JIF Plant safety composite

Lexington JIF Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

−0.4

2019→2023

Lexington JIF Plant injury rate improved

Lexington JIF Plant's TCR fell 0.4 from 1.4 in 2019 to 1.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.4 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0.4 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311911 · Lexington, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO J.M. Smucker, LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~267 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J.M. Smucker, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lexington JIF Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lexington JIF Plant averages 1.1 TCR (28% of the Canned nuts manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lexington JIF Plant TCR series: 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0.4 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=1.1 · BLS 4.1

Where Lexington JIF Plant falls in its industry

150 Canned nuts manufacturing establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Canned nuts manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

Lexington JIF Plant (267 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lexington JIF Plant
Lexington JIF Plant (267 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Lexington JIF Plant has more employees than the Canned nuts manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2023 1.1 0.7 3 0 0
2022 1.1 0.7 3 0 0
2021 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2020 1.8 0.4 5 0 0
2019 1.4 0.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311911 · KY · Lexington

150 Canned nuts manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, KY · 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 J.M. Smucker, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BARCELONA NUT COMPANY 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wyoming 3750 Manufacturing Facility 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hamakua Macadamia Nut Co. 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2540 Nicholasville Folding 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winston Industries, LLC 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emerson Hermetic Motors 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ventra Plastics Russellville 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR Middlebury Location 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 36 Great Valley Pkwy Malvern PA 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Interstate Batteries of Northern Virginia 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mueller Systems 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Baddour Center, Inc. 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific, Eugene, OR 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pompano 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pcc Airfoils - Crooksville 267 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.