Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing · Indiana

American Licorice

Laporte, IN · ~220 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Licorice runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

American Licorice: 2.6 TCR = 63% of Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Licorice safety composite

American Licorice scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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: 2.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2018

American Licorice's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.0 in 2017 to 3.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 63% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Ferrara Candy Compan…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~220 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ferrara Candy Company - Bellwood, IL. (0.1 TCR gap)

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American Licorice in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Licorice averages 2.6 TCR (63% of the Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Licorice TCR series: 2017=2 · 2018=3.2 · BLS 4.2

Where American Licorice falls in its industry

123 Candy bars, nonchocolate, manu establishments

Safer than 61% 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 #2 safest of 4 Candy bars, nonchocolate, manu employers in Indiana.

American Licorice (220 employees, TCR 2.6) 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
American Licorice (220 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

American Licorice has more employees than the Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing 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
2018 3.2 1.9 6 1 0
2017 2.0 1.0 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · IN · Laporte

123 Candy bars, 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 Ferrara Candy Company - Bellwood, IL. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR McJak Candy Company 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mondelez International - Rockford 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mankato MN (Plant) 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bremen Castings, Inc., - Foundry @ 500 N. Baltimore 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE inTech Trailers 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keystone RV Plant 57 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1063 - Carmel 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaPorte Hospital 927 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaPorte 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaPorte Physician Network 280 FTE
NAT-TCR Altru Building 1 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Essentra HCP Manati 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Infusion Solutions Inc - 1130 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Arrow Exterminators Vero Beach 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manor Care Health Services - Boca Raton 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE NOV Houston Rig Pressure Control WLY 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chattanooga Offset 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylor Brothers 220 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. 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.