Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing · Arkansas

Pepper Source LTD.

Van Buren, AR · ~237 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pepper Source LTD. runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Pepper Source LTD.: 6.3 TCR = 155% of Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pepper Source LTD. safety composite

Pepper Source LTD. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−3.9

2016→2024

Pepper Source LTD. injury rate improved

Pepper Source LTD.'s TCR fell 3.9 from 5.5 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 16.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.5 · 2018=5.2 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=16.5 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Van Buren, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 155% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P25
  • PHOTO Plochman
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~237 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plochman (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pepper Source LTD. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pepper Source LTD. averages 6.3 TCR (155% of the Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pepper Source LTD. TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2018=5.2 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=16.5 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Pepper Source LTD. falls in its industry

134 Cheese based salad dressing ma establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Pepper Source LTD. (237 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Pepper Source LTD.
Pepper Source LTD. (237 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Pepper Source LTD. has more employees than the Cheese based salad dressing manufacturin median and a higher 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
2024 1.6 1.6 4 0 0
2023 3.9 3.9 13 0 0
2021 16.5 8.3 10 0 0
2020 5.2 1.1 15 0 0
2018 5.2 1.1 14 0 0
2016 5.5 1.3 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · AR · Van Buren

134 Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 71 employers in Van Buren, AR · 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 Plochman 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mizkan America 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Foods 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nippon Shokken U.S.A. Inc. 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 025-00409 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE 160 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE ID logistics FT. Smith AR 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baldwin and Shell Construction Company 236 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Drivers 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Plant 1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren General Office 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR VBR 751 FTE
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express Wildwood 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rio Grande Valley Sector 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR T&M Electric of Clay County, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Action Plastics, Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 104 - GB Sacramento 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winooski 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Human Services 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE HealthTrust - West Florida Supply Chain 237 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, 2021, 2020, 2018, 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.