Soup mixes, dry, made from purchased dry ingredients · Ohio

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC.

Akron, OH · ~79 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC. runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Soup mixes, dry, made from purchased dry ingredients workplace, earning a grade A.

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC.: 2.0 TCR = 49% of Soup mixes, dry, made from purchased dry ingredients BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC. safety composite

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC.: 1.3 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2024

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC.'s TCR rose 1.5 from 1.3 in 2023 to 2.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Akron, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 49% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Dupont Nutrition USA…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dupont Nutrition USA, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC. averages 2.0 TCR (49% of the Soup mixes, dry, made from purchased dry ingredients BLS benchmark).

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

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC. TCR series: 2023=1.3 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC. falls in its industry

335 Soup mixes, dry, made from pur establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Soup mixes, dry, made from pur employers in Ohio.

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC. (79 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC.
Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC. (79 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, INC. has fewer employees than the Soup mixes, dry, made from purchased dry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2023 1.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · OH · Akron

335 Soup mixes, dry, made from purchased dry ingredients employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, 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 Dupont Nutrition USA, INC. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michael Foods/Papettis - Jersey Pride 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HIMWS - Winston-Salem 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barney & Co. California, LLC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Canton South Service Center 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE RedBuilt Ohio 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kokosing, Inc. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hi-Way Paving, Inc. 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Shawnee,KS 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 066 Odessa 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ulrich Fabrication Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR South Beach Resort 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Georgia Manor Nursing Home 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Variety Distributors Inc. 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swift Industrial Power 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garrety Glass 79 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.