Tortilla chips manufacturing · Florida

Ara Food Corp

Miami, FL · ~73 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ara Food Corp runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tortilla chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ara Food Corp: 5.2 TCR = 126% of Tortilla chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ara Food Corp safety composite

Ara Food Corp scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2017→2024

Ara Food Corp injury rate improved

Ara Food Corp's TCR fell 1.3 from 5.8 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.8 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Miami, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Rudolph Foods Compan…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rudolph Foods Company Lima (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ara Food Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ara Food Corp averages 5.2 TCR (126% of the Tortilla chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ara Food Corp TCR series: 2017=5.8 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Ara Food Corp falls in its industry

253 Tortilla chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Tortilla chips manufacturing employers in Florida.

Ara Food Corp (73 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ara Food Corp
Ara Food Corp (73 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Ara Food Corp has fewer employees than the Tortilla chips manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 4.5 4.5 1 2 0
2017 5.8 4.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · FL · Miami

253 Tortilla chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 1,467 employers in Miami, FL · 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 Rudolph Foods Company Lima 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snak King - Freeport 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Rapids 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 38341 - BROOK HOLLOW PLANT 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amelia Farm 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buckhorn Nursery Ltd 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services Bushnell 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Double J Harvesting, Inc. 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-MIA-MIAMI-MIA-TRML 9,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Hospital of Miami Inc. 6,876 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIACX0UPS MIA UPS 3,101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - Miami 2,879 FTE
NAT-TCR Scapa Tapes NA, Inc 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR JTEKT Automotive South Carolina 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR White Star Electric, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln Terminal 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dakkota Integrated Systems Sterling Heights 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sandusky 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bel Air 526-Woodland 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raley's 124-Caughlin Ranch 73 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, 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.