Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses · Ohio

The Protein Specialists Company

Cleveland, OH · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Protein Specialists Company runs at 421% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

The Protein Specialists Company: 13.9 TCR = 421% of Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Protein Specialists Company safety composite

The Protein Specialists Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

The Protein Specialists Company held a steady TCR band

The Protein Specialists Company's TCR held near 0.1 from 13.9 in 2023 to 13.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=13.9 · 2024=13.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Cleveland, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.9 · 421% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #25/25
  • PHOTO R.L.Zeigler Co., Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R.L.Zeigler Co., Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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The Protein Specialists Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Protein Specialists Company averages 13.9 TCR (421% of the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

The Protein Specialists Company TCR series: 2023=13.9 · 2024=13.8 · BLS 3.3

Where The Protein Specialists Company falls in its industry

613 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 25 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce employers in Ohio.

The Protein Specialists Company (34 employees, TCR 13.9) 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 The Protein Specialists Company
The Protein Specialists Company (34 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

The Protein Specialists Company has fewer employees than the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry 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 13.8 4.6 3 0 0
2023 13.9 9.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · OH · Cleveland

613 Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, OH · 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 R.L.Zeigler Co., Inc. 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stock Yards Las Vegas Harrison 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western's Smokehouse & Meat Market, LLC. 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Processing Services Spencer 13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bauman Orchards Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Millcreek Gardens LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meadow View Growers, Inc 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE ayers farms inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR Cable Components Group 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 707 Sby1000 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairmount Foundry Inc. 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Allina Health Eagan Clinic 13.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Imdc, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dundee Products 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manhattan Mechanical Contractors INC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marshall Location 34 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.