Chewing tobacco manufacturing · Kentucky

Swedish Match

Owensboro, KY · ~816 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swedish Match runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chewing tobacco manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Swedish Match: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Chewing tobacco manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swedish Match safety composite

Swedish Match scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.3

2022→2024

Swedish Match injury rate improved

Swedish Match's TCR fell 1.3 from 2.8 in 2022 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.8 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Owensboro, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Taylor Brothers
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~816 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Taylor Brothers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swedish Match in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swedish Match averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Chewing tobacco manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Swedish Match TCR series: 2022=2.8 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Swedish Match falls in its industry

53 Chewing tobacco manufacturing establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

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 4 Chewing tobacco manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

Swedish Match (816 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Swedish Match
Swedish Match (816 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Swedish Match has more employees than the Chewing tobacco manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 1.5 1.2 16 0 0
2023 1.7 1.6 16 0 0
2022 2.8 1.4 20 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · KY · Owensboro

53 Chewing tobacco manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 184 employers in Owensboro, 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 Taylor Brothers 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR R.C. Owen Company 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nat Sherman - Greensboro, NC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASC Taylor Brothers 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - LUK7 811 FTE
STATE-SIZE Go-Hire Employment and Development, Inc. 825 FTE
STATE-SIZE St Elizabeth Healthcare Florence 826 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyster-Yale Group Berea, KY Operations 828 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Health Regional Hospital 2,305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Public Schools 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Independent 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyotestsu Mid America LLC 769 FTE
NAT-TCR 3317 - Chicago Logan Square Milwaukee 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The McKernon Group, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR PTS Electronics Corp 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Atlanta - 261 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - RNT9 816 FTE
NAT-SIZE 20/20 Plumbing & Heating, Inc 816 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dreyers Grand Ice Cream 816 FTE
NAT-SIZE MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital 816 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. 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.