Potato chips manufacturing · Missouri

Backer's Potato Chip

Fulton, MO · ~97 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Backer's Potato Chip runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Backer's Potato Chip: 1.4 TCR = 35% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Backer's Potato Chip safety composite

Backer's Potato Chip scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Backer's Potato Chip: 1.1 → 164.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 164.8 TCR · DART/TCR 113.68× in 2024

Backer's Potato Chip's TCR rose 163.8 from 1.1 in 2016 to 164.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 113.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Fulton, MO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 35% of ind

  • DART 164.8 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Herr Foods - 062 Egg…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Herr Foods - 062 Egg Harbor NJ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Backer's Potato Chip in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Backer's Potato Chip averages 1.4 TCR (35% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Backer's Potato Chip TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=2 · 2018=2 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=2 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=57.5 · 2024=164.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Backer's Potato Chip falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Missouri.

Backer's Potato Chip (97 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 Backer's Potato Chip
Backer's Potato Chip (97 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Backer's Potato Chip has fewer employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a lower 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 164.8 164.8 3 0 0
2023 57.5 57.5 1 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2021 2.0 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 2.0 2.0 2 0 0
2017 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2016 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · MO · Fulton

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 33 employers in Fulton, MO · 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 Herr Foods - 062 Egg Harbor NJ 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRANKFORT EAST 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TOPEKA PLANT 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plymouth Plant 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Blue Arrow Missouri LLC 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cerner Innovations Ph. 3 & 4 Project 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williams Construction Arkansas Inc. 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Second Sight Systems 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMEREN MISSOURI - Callaway Plant 744 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fulton DC 664 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westminster College 355 FTE
CITY-NEAR William Woods University 251 FTE
NAT-TCR Young'S Environmental Cleanup, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Itt Koni Na 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Capital Steel, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Warren 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE BridgePointe Health Campus 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blair Ridge Health Campus 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodbrair Nursing Home 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weck's Coors 97 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.