Poultry, packaged frozen, merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Sherwood Foods- Walton KY

Walton, KY · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sherwood Foods- Walton KY runs at 449% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry, packaged frozen, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Sherwood Foods- Walton KY: 9.9 TCR = 449% of Poultry, packaged frozen, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sherwood Foods- Walton KY safety composite

Sherwood Foods- Walton KY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Sherwood Foods- Walton KY: 7.3 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.68× in 2018

Sherwood Foods- Walton KY's TCR rose 9.3 from 7.3 in 2016 to 16.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424420 · Walton, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 449% of ind

  • DART 16.6 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Brown Foodservice, I…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brown Foodservice, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sherwood Foods- Walton KY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sherwood Foods- Walton KY averages 9.9 TCR (449% of the Poultry, packaged frozen, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sherwood Foods- Walton KY TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=16.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Sherwood Foods- Walton KY falls in its industry

134 Poultry, packaged frozen, merc establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Poultry, packaged frozen, merc employers in Kentucky.

Sherwood Foods- Walton KY (26 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sherwood Foods- Walton KY
Sherwood Foods- Walton KY (26 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4

Sherwood Foods- Walton KY has fewer employees than the Poultry, packaged frozen, merchant whole median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.4. 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
2018 16.6 16.6 1 0 0
2017 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2016 7.3 7.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424420 · KY · Walton

134 Poultry, packaged frozen, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 50 employers in Walton, 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 Brown Foodservice, Inc. 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond Warehouse 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL-PLANT01-Plant City - Warehouse 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.J. Distributors LLC-Stockton Warehouse 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 830 Grassy Springs 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 222-NiSource-Ashland KY-Service Cent 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3510 COLEMAN RD PADUCAH KY 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE INTEC Group LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYWON - RICHWOOD 876 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richwood #2 460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Radial Richwood #1 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Safran Landing Systems Kentucky LLC 322 FTE
NAT-TCR Coca-Cola Bottling Works of Tullahoma, Inc. - Clarksville Distribution 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heatherwilde Assisted Living 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 3051 S State St 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 210 ABC Supply Co., Inc 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Construction Co., Inc. ND 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office 40 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Galleria at Roseville 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 73-Grandville 26 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.