Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables · Idaho

Basic American Ingredients

Name: Basic American Ingredients Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Blackfoot, ID · ~131 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Basic American Ingredients runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade D.

Basic American Ingredients: 5.8 TCR = 175% of Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Basic American Ingredients safety composite

Basic American Ingredients scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Basic American Ingredients: 3.4 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2019

Basic American Ingredients's TCR rose 1.3 from 3.4 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Blackfoot, ID ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 175% of ind

DART 3.8 DART
RANK #11/22
PHOTO Golden State Herbs
BOOK 4y book
INJ 18 inj
SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Golden State Herbs (0.1 TCR gap)

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Graceland Frui

5.9
This site

5.8
Blackfoot - BA

5.8
Idahoan Foods,

5.8
Golden State H

5.7

What this shows Basic American Ingredients averages 5.8 TCR (175% of the Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

Basic American Ingredients TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=9 · 2019=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Basic American Ingredients falls in its industry

123 Freeze-dried, food processing, establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Idaho alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 22 Freeze-dried, food processing, employers in Idaho.

Basic American Ingredients (131 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Basic American Ingredients has more employees than the Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits an median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2019	4.7	3.8	5	0
2018	9.0	2.0	2	7
2017	5.9	2.0	3	3
2016	3.4	1.7	8	4

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · ID · Blackfoot

123 Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,774 rated employers in Idaho with headcount on file · 37 employers in Blackfoot, ID · 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	Golden State Herbs	INDIO, CA	5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Blackfoot - BAF	BLACKFOOT, ID	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Idahoan Foods, LLC - Rupert Plant	RUPERT, ID	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Graceland Fruit - Main St.	FRANKFORT, MI	5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Cupertino Electric, Inc. - Idaho Operations	KUNA	131 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Woodgrain Transportation LLC	FRUITLAND	131 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ABS-0030-0030-00169 FAC-00169-BOISE-ID	BOISE	131 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Eagle #027	EAGLE	131 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Blackfoot Plant	Blackfoot	418 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Spudnik Equipment	Blackfoot	395 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Premier Technology, Inc.	Blackfoot	291 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1905	Blackfoot	273 FTE
NAT-TCR	Keystone Powdered Metal Company	Saint Marys, PA	5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	6400-Swy 0027 1297	Edmonds, WA	5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Independent Furniture Supply	Tupelo, MS	5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	6962-Abs 0028 0757	Chula Vista, CA	5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Fluortek, Inc.	Easton, PA	131 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Minnesota Valley Action Council	Mankato, MN	131 FTE
NAT-SIZE	American Van Equipment	Lakewood, NJ	131 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cardinal CG - Northfield CG	Northfield, MN	131 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.