Processed meats manufacturing · Georgia

Sunset Farm Foods

Valdosta, GA · ~173 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunset Farm Foods runs at 259% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Sunset Farm Foods: 8.6 TCR = 259% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunset Farm Foods safety composite

Sunset Farm Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Sunset Farm Foods: 5.0 → 15.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2024

Sunset Farm Foods's TCR rose 10.5 from 5.0 in 2016 to 15.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Valdosta, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 259% of ind

  • DART 13.3 DART
  • RANK #19/20
  • PHOTO Womelsdorf - John F …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 114 inj
  • SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Womelsdorf - John F Martin & Sons (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sunset Farm Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunset Farm Foods averages 8.6 TCR (259% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sunset Farm Foods TCR series: 2016=5 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=10.9 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=13 · 2024=15.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Sunset Farm Foods falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 20 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Georgia.

Sunset Farm Foods (173 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 Sunset Farm Foods
Sunset Farm Foods (173 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Sunset Farm Foods has fewer employees than the Processed meats manufacturing 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
2024 15.4 13.3 28 1 0
2023 13.0 8.3 25 0 0
2022 7.8 7.3 15 0 0
2021 10.9 9.8 14 6 0
2020 6.9 6.9 13 0 0
2019 5.2 4.6 8 0 0
2018 4.3 3.5 5 1 0
2016 5.0 4.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · GA · Valdosta

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 167 employers in Valdosta, GA · 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 Womelsdorf - John F Martin & Sons 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charcuterie Artisans (Daniele Inc) DPI 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR J&G Foods Inc 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR A to Z Portion Control Meats, Inc. 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robinson Paving Company 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE DCB Savannah 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASC - Atlanta 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE TDK Components USA, Inc. 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Georgia Medical Center 2,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-0962 922 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Electric Inc. - All Establishments 886 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Electric Inc. 809 FTE
NAT-TCR Belmont Village Albany 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 8025 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1263 PYP Sun Valley 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridges by EPOCH at Hingham 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maricopa County - Flood Control District (690) 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Carmel College of Nursing 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Joliet IL FXFE-JOT 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE C50 173 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.