Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing · Kentucky

T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg

Horse Cave, KY · ~673 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg: 1.2 TCR = 30% of Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg safety composite

T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg: 0.5 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2023

T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.5 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Horse Cave, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK P90
  • PHOTO T. Marzetti
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~673 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: T. Marzetti (0.0 TCR gap)

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T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg averages 1.2 TCR (30% of the Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg TCR series: 2022=0.5 · 2023=1.9 · BLS 4.1

Where T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg falls in its industry

134 Cheese based salad dressing ma establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg (673 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg
T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg (673 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

T. Marzetti Co. -- Horse Cave Drsg has more employees than the Cheese based salad dressing manufacturin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2023 1.9 0.6 13 6 0
2022 0.5 0.0 0 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · KY · Horse Cave

134 Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 9 employers in Horse Cave, 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 T. Marzetti 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Englewood Stratas Food 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 049-PL001 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GSF Conyers Liquid Products 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Double Kwik Hyden 673 FTE
STATE-SIZE double kwik Prestonsburg 23 673 FTE
STATE-SIZE double kwik Harlan 673 FTE
STATE-SIZE double kwik Neon 673 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Container Horse Cave 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Container, Inc. of KY 1,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marzetti Company 525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sister Schubert's 247 FTE
NAT-TCR GT Technologies, Tallahassee 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Hobby Distribution-NSH 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Harlow's School Bus Service - Sturgis 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office - 01 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Hotel Hershey 673 FTE
NAT-SIZE HNTNWVUV 673 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-PD-PHX-PHOENIX-PHX-PDMT 673 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4028-NV01 673 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: 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.