Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses · New Hampshire
The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse
Claremont, NH · ~123 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 15.6
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse runs at 472% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 15.6
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 52
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse's OSHA Total Case Rate of 15.6 to the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark of 3.3 (472% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse falls in its industry
631 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishmentsSafer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.
Trend analysis for The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse
Between 2022 and 2024, The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse's Total Case Rate improved from 19.4 to 13.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 29% decrease across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 13.6, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 19.4, a spread of 5.8 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 3 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse recorded 52 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 52 injuries, 8 illnesses shown on this page for The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311612 - Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
13 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 275,203 hours worked = 9.45 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse (this establishment) | 15.57 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 311612 |
| New Hampshire state avg (all industries) | 5.93 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 19 reportable incidents · 17 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 17 reportable incidents · 14 injuries, 3 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 24 reportable incidents · 21 injuries, 3 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13.8 | 9.4 | 17 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 13.6 | 5.6 | 14 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022 | 19.4 | 9.7 | 21 | 3 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse's reported OSHA injury record versus its Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 472% of the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses benchmark, The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.