Potato chips manufacturing · Ohio

Ballreich Foods, LLC

Name: Ballreich Foods, LLC Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Tiffin, OH · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ballreich Foods, LLC runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Ballreich Foods, LLC: 2.5 TCR = 60% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ballreich Foods, LLC safety composite

Ballreich Foods, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 93% 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).

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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

Ballreich Foods, LLC: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Ballreich Foods, LLC's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 5.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Tiffin, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 60% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #9/27
PHOTO Williamsport Site
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Williamsport Site (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.5
Williamsport S

2.5
Snyder's-Lance

2.5
Shearer's Food

2.5
Herr Foods - 0

2.5

What this shows Ballreich Foods, LLC averages 2.5 TCR (60% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Ballreich Foods, LLC TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=5 · BLS 4.1

Where Ballreich Foods, LLC falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 27 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Ballreich Foods, LLC (53 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Ballreich Foods, LLC 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	5.0	0.0	2	0	0
2023	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · OH · Tiffin

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 66 employers in Tiffin, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Williamsport Site	WILLIAMSPORT, PA	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	GOODYEAR, AZ	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Shearer's Foods - BRW	BREWSTER, OH	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Herr Foods - 077 Concordville PA	GLEN MILLS, PA	2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Buckeye Lake, OH	BUCKEYE LAKE	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Layer Site 5	MT VICTORY	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	UTI Groveport	GROVEPORT	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Canton Transmission SC	CANTON	53 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Tiffin Hospital	Tiffin	427 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Health Tiffin Hospital	Tiffin	411 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tiffin Hospital	Tiffin	397 FTE
CITY-NEAR	National Machinery LLC	Tiffin	396 FTE
NAT-TCR	New Jersey American Water - Shrewsbury Field Ops	Shrewsbury, NJ	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Issaquah WA Truss	Issaquah, WA	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Refrigeration Design & Service	Fairless Hills, PA	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Avista Noxon	Noxon, MT	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Mikros Technologies LLC	Claremont, NH	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Walker Windows, LLC	Anaheim, CA	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Noble Mountain Tree Farm	Salem, OR	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rialto 10507	Rialto, CA	53 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. 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.