Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses · Florida

Nettles Sausage, Inc.

Lake City, FL · ~43 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nettles Sausage, Inc. runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

Nettles Sausage, Inc.: 6.0 TCR = 180% of Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nettles Sausage, Inc. safety composite

Nettles Sausage, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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

−10.1

2017→2023

Nettles Sausage, Inc. injury rate improved

Nettles Sausage, Inc.'s TCR fell 10.1 from 10.1 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.1 · 2018=7.8 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Lake City, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 180% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Boar's Head Provisio…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boar's Head Provisions Co., Inc.-Petersburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nettles Sausage, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nettles Sausage, Inc. averages 6.0 TCR (180% of the Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Nettles Sausage, Inc. TCR series: 2017=10.1 · 2018=7.8 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Nettles Sausage, Inc. falls in its industry

613 Meat products canning (except establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Meat products canning (except employers in Florida.

Nettles Sausage, Inc. (43 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Nettles Sausage, Inc.
Nettles Sausage, Inc. (43 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Nettles Sausage, Inc. has fewer employees than the Meat products canning (except baby, pet 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.8 0.0 4 0 0
2017 10.1 10.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · FL · Lake City

613 Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 115 employers in Lake City, FL · 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 Boar's Head Provisions Co., Inc.-Petersburg 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckhead Meat and Seafood of Central Florida 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stevison Ham Company 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE PINTO'S FARM 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fernlea Nurseries - STU 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRP Boca Raton Service Center 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stuart Office 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anderson Columbia Co., Inc. 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Lake City Hospital 663 FTE
CITY-NEAR HAECO Airframe Services - Lake City 605 FTE
CITY-NEAR HAECO Americas - LCQ 562 FTE
NAT-TCR MS&G 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Aldrich-APL, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KY_Hebron_1405 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR USM Store #986 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE First Choice Transport, LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Starr Company 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maven Solutions LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barron Elementary School 43 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, 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.