Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) · Georgia

Vital Foods LLC

Gainesville, GA · ~168 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vital Foods LLC runs at 602% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) workplace, earning a grade F.

Vital Foods LLC: 19.9 TCR = 602% of Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vital Foods LLC safety composite

Vital Foods LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Vital Foods LLC: 23.0 → 276.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 276.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2018

Vital Foods LLC's TCR rose 253.3 from 23.0 in 2016 to 276.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Gainesville, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.9 · 602% of ind

  • DART 13.2 DART
  • RANK #67/67
  • PHOTO David Elliot Poultry…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: David Elliot Poultry Farm, Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Vital Foods LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vital Foods LLC averages 19.9 TCR (602% of the Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) BLS benchmark).

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

Vital Foods LLC TCR series: 2016=23 · 2017=16.8 · 2018=276.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Vital Foods LLC falls in its industry

509 Canning poultry (except baby a establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 67 Canning poultry (except baby a employers in Georgia.

Vital Foods LLC (168 employees, TCR 19.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Vital Foods LLC
Vital Foods LLC (168 employees, TCR 19.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Vital Foods LLC has fewer employees than the Canning poultry (except baby and pet foo median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2018 276.3 13.2 21 0 0
2017 16.8 14.8 17 0 0
2016 23.0 21.1 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · GA · Gainesville

509 Canning poultry (except baby and pet food) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 306 employers in Gainesville, GA · 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 David Elliot Poultry Farm, Inc 19.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Simply Essentials 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II 18.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAPLE LEAF FARMS, INC. - SERENADE & DC 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Thrasher Electric, LLC 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA GA Morrow Plant 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geiger Automotive USA, Inc 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE STAR GRANITE CO INC 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc. 5,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kubota Manufacturing of America Corporation 1,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poultry Processing 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mar-Jac Poultry, Inc Processing Plant 1,190 FTE
NAT-TCR Henrico Health and Rehabilitation Center 19.9 TCR
NAT-TCR James Street 19.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Atria Westminster 19.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ISD 991 Belview Learning Center 19.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE NBF Headquarters 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peapod Coopersburg, Pa 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Santa Cruz Center (Cacru) 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Le Peep 2 168 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.