Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Alabama

Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL

Red Bay, AL · ~243 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL: 5.5 TCR = 141% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL safety composite

Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL: 6.9 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL's TCR rose 2.2 from 6.9 in 2016 to 9.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Red Bay, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 141% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Fairview Mills, Fair…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 130 inj
  • SIZE ~243 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fairview Mills, Fairview (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL averages 5.5 TCR (141% of the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=9.2 · BLS 3.9

Where Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Alabama.

Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL (243 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL
Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL (243 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Sunshine Mills Red Bay, AL has more employees than the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 9.2 5.2 24 1 0
2023 4.4 3.1 12 2 0
2022 4.4 2.0 12 1 0
2021 3.8 2.3 9 1 0
2020 6.1 2.5 16 1 0
2019 5.5 1.4 16 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 5 0 0
2017 7.5 2.1 20 1 0
2016 6.9 3.1 16 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · AL · Red Bay

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 16 employers in Red Bay, AL · 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 Fairview Mills, Fairview 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harbor Drive 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ohio Pet Foods Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Collar Pet Food San Bernardino 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1462 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE SODEXO AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY EVS 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huntsville Rehabilitation Foundation, Inc. 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tiffin Motor Homes, Inc 975 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tiffin Motorhomes Inc 949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunshine Homes Inc 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tiffin Motorhomes Inc. Service 256 FTE
NAT-TCR Massey Services 46 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Villa Rica 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Marberry Machine 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wellstar Paulding Hospital 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Remco, Inc. - Allentown 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nampa 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairhaven Christian Retirement Center 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caniff Service Center 243 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.