Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing · Kentucky

White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville

Louisville, KY · ~240 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville: 5.4 TCR = 164% of Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville safety composite

White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2016→2017

White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville injury rate improved

White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville's TCR fell 0.6 from 5.7 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2017=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO General Mills (Joplin)
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~240 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Mills (Joplin) (0.0 TCR gap)

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White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville averages 5.4 TCR (164% of the Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville falls in its industry

274 Dinners, frozen (except seafoo establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 Dinners, frozen (except seafoo employers in Kentucky.

White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville (240 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville
White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville (240 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville has more employees than the Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2017 5.1 4.3 11 2 0
2016 5.7 4.5 11 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · KY · Louisville

274 Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, 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 General Mills (Joplin) 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Catalina Finer Food Corp 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WCD LLC Vandalia 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SCHWAN'S BAKERY POTTSTOWN PLANT 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maker's Mark Distillery 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisville KY 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer Store 166 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Givaudan Flavors Corporation 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR 2073-ASA-20730105-MX 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 2 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Case Goods/Corporate Office 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4818-48180052-111 Riverbend Dr-Wc 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE GEHC : Westborough MA, LS 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE League City (Txlci) 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frederick (Mdfre) 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights 240 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.