Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing · California

American Licorice Company - Union City, CA

Union City, CA · ~161 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Licorice Company - Union City, CA runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

American Licorice Company - Union City, CA: 2.9 TCR = 68% of Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Licorice Company - Union City, CA safety composite

American Licorice Company - Union City, CA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

American Licorice Company - Union City, CA: 0.6 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.39× in 2024

American Licorice Company - Union City, CA's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.6 in 2019 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Union City, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 68% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Bowman Andros Produc…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bowman Andros Products LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Licorice Company - Union City, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Licorice Company - Union City, CA averages 2.9 TCR (68% 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 - Union City, CA TCR series: 2019=0.6 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 4.2

Where American Licorice Company - Union City, CA falls in its industry

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m employers in California.

American Licorice Company - Union City, CA (161 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 - Union City, CA
American Licorice Company - Union City, CA (161 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

American Licorice Company - Union City, CA has fewer 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 4.8 4.0 6 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 2.4 1.8 3 1 0
2021 5.6 3.6 7 4 0
2020 3.1 1.6 2 4 0
2019 0.6 0.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · CA · Union City

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 142 employers in Union City, CA · 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 Bowman Andros Products LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Lucks Company LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferrara Candy Company - Bellwood, IL. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Licorice 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE La Valle Sabbia, Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE El Espinal FLC 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry Avocado Corporation 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-SONGS Station 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carson Consulting Corp 953 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis LLC 646 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4818-48180003-33321 DOWE AVE-WC 597 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis (Formerly Abaxis) 563 FTE
NAT-TCR 104 - Scranton Fas 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at University of Florida 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0f40 - Rhode Island Fire 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpla Caribe 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE PDX-Main 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pro-Pak Industries 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sentara Materials Management 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1004-40 GoJet ORD Flight Operations 161 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.