Sauces for meat (except tomato based) manufacturing · Kentucky

Marzetti Company

Horse Cave, KY · ~525 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Marzetti Company runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sauces for meat (except tomato based) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Marzetti Company: 1.5 TCR = 36% of Sauces for meat (except tomato based) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Marzetti Company safety composite

Marzetti Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

Marzetti Company held a steady TCR band

Marzetti Company's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.2 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.2 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Horse Cave, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 36% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK P88
  • PHOTO Spanish Lake
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~525 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spanish Lake (0.1 TCR gap)

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Marzetti Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Marzetti Company averages 1.5 TCR (36% of the Sauces for meat (except tomato based) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Marzetti Company TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=0.9 · BLS 4.1

Where Marzetti Company falls in its industry

134 Sauces for meat (except tomato establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Marzetti Company (525 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Marzetti Company
Marzetti Company (525 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Marzetti Company has more employees than the Sauces for meat (except tomato based) ma median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2021 0.9 0.4 5 0 0
2020 2.5 1.3 6 7 0
2019 0.9 0.2 3 2 0
2018 1.9 1.5 10 0 0
2017 1.2 0.6 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · KY · Horse Cave

134 Sauces for meat (except tomato based) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 9 employers in Horse Cave, 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 Spanish Lake 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Foods, LLC. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ken's Foods 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nashville Stratas Foods 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE LG&E Center 524 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Packaged Meats - Middlesboro 527 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curtis Maruyasu America 522 FTE
STATE-SIZE Georgetown Community Hospital 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Container Horse Cave 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Container, Inc. of KY 1,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg 673 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sister Schubert's 247 FTE
NAT-TCR AW Oakes & Son, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR S02968 - Fresno Hauling and Transfer Station 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Paper Converting Machine Company- Lombardi 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Dearborn Palm City 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Leprino Foods Greeley 525 FTE
NAT-SIZE WellStar Atlanta Medical Center South 525 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0687 - Iwilei Hi Whse 525 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4813-48130007-Freeman Av Las Vegas 525 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.