Processed meats manufacturing · Tennessee

Swaggerty's Sausage

Kodak, TN · ~506 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swaggerty's Sausage runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Swaggerty's Sausage: 8.3 TCR = 251% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swaggerty's Sausage safety composite

Swaggerty's Sausage scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−17.1

2020→2024

Swaggerty's Sausage injury rate improved

Swaggerty's Sausage's TCR fell 17.1 from 19.3 in 2020 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 19.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=19.3 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=11.3 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Kodak, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 251% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #15/17
  • PHOTO Godshall's Telford
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~506 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Godshall's Telford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swaggerty's Sausage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swaggerty's Sausage averages 8.3 TCR (251% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Swaggerty's Sausage TCR series: 2020=19.3 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=11.3 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Swaggerty's Sausage falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 17 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

Swaggerty's Sausage (506 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Swaggerty's Sausage
Swaggerty's Sausage (506 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Swaggerty's Sausage has more 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 2.2 1.5 15 0 0
2023 2.5 1.7 16 0 0
2022 11.3 10.9 13 53 0
2021 6.1 6.0 17 22 0
2020 19.3 19.3 12 95 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · TN · Kodak

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 10 employers in Kodak, TN · 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 Godshall's Telford 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 304A 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frick's Quality Meats 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE TN 5720 Asheville Hwy 506 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia State Community College 506 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Land Company, LLC 507 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenland FG 507 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pork Processing 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZKOD 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lisega Kodak 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Food City Store #609 119 FTE
NAT-TCR Stonebridge LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Modesto CA 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1413 - Aurora West 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0970 - Alpharetta 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Poole & Kent Main Office 506 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wegmans Manalapan 095 506 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson Tree Service, LLC 468 506 FTE
NAT-SIZE Korry Electronics 506 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. 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.