Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing · California

American Licorice Union City, CA

Union City, CA · ~180 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

American Licorice Union City, CA runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

American Licorice Union City, CA: 3.4 TCR = 82% of Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Licorice Union City, CA safety composite

American Licorice Union City, CA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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 Union City, CA: 2.1 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2018

American Licorice Union City, CA's TCR rose 2.7 from 2.1 in 2017 to 4.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.78× 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 C · TCR 3.4 · 82% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO 120 S Fairbank St
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 120 S Fairbank St (0.1 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · California employers → · Look up another →

American Licorice 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 Union City, CA averages 3.4 TCR (82% 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 Union City, CA TCR series: 2017=2.1 · 2018=4.8 · BLS 4.2

Where American Licorice Union City, CA falls in its industry

123 Candy bars, nonchocolate, manu establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #3 safest of 9 Candy bars, nonchocolate, manu employers in California.

American Licorice Union City, CA (180 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Union City, CA
American Licorice Union City, CA (180 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

American Licorice Union City, CA 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 4.8 2.7 7 2 0
2017 2.1 2.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · CA · Union City

123 Candy bars, 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 120 S Fairbank St 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR bellwood 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burns Brothers Popcorn, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Humboldt TN 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE BALOIAN PACKING CO., INC. 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE AJ FARM LABOR CONTRACTING, INC OFFICE 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2905-29050002-4148 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fowler Packing East 180 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 Meyer Ace Hardware - North 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR McAfee Packing Co., Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NA-US-MA-Agawam-Silver Street 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR GKN Sinter Metals, LLC. Menomonee Falls 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bayshore Concrete Products 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Hall 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE TR Seattle Management LLC 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Police Department 180 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.