Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing · Indiana

American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN

Laporte, IN · ~380 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN: 2.4 TCR = 57% of Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN safety composite

American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN held a steady TCR band

American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.0 in 2019 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.0 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Laporte, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 57% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Doumak Inc. - Corpor…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~380 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Doumak Inc. - Corporate (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN averages 2.4 TCR (57% of the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN TCR series: 2019=2 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2 · 2023=2 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 4.2

Where American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN falls in its industry

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m employers in Indiana.

American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN (380 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN
American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN (380 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN has more employees than the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturi 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 1.9 1.1 7 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 9 1 0
2022 2.0 1.4 9 0 0
2021 2.5 2.1 8 0 0
2020 3.9 3.5 10 0 0
2019 2.0 1.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · IN · Laporte

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 49 employers in Laporte, IN · 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 Doumak Inc. - Corporate 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Family Foods Group, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln NE 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1378 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1783 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edwards Electrical & Mechanical 381 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ardagh Glass Inc Dunkirk 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaPorte Hospital 927 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaPorte 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaPorte Physician Network 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aero Metals, Inc 279 FTE
NAT-TCR Chippewa Falls - Lakeland 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Commemorative Brands Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hotel Saint Louis 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR G.T. Construction and Development, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1819 - Antioch Slatten Ranch 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cortec Precision sheetmetal 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jack B. Henderson Construction Inc.-AZ 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE TEAM Industries Bagley 380 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.