Cheese curls and puffs manufacturing · Ohio

Basic Grain Products Inc.

Coldwater, OH · ~139 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Basic Grain Products Inc. runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese curls and puffs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Basic Grain Products Inc.: 4.4 TCR = 108% of Cheese curls and puffs manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Basic Grain Products Inc. safety composite

Basic Grain Products Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Basic Grain Products Inc.: 5.0 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

Basic Grain Products Inc.'s TCR rose 2.3 from 5.0 in 2017 to 7.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Coldwater, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 108% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #21/27
  • PHOTO STACYS PLANT
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STACYS PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Basic Grain Products Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Basic Grain Products Inc. averages 4.4 TCR (108% of the Cheese curls and puffs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Basic Grain Products Inc. TCR series: 2017=5 · 2019=4.5 · 2023=1 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Basic Grain Products Inc. falls in its industry

253 Cheese curls and puffs manufac establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 27 Cheese curls and puffs manufac employers in Ohio.

Basic Grain Products Inc. (139 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Basic Grain Products Inc.
Basic Grain Products Inc. (139 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Basic Grain Products Inc. has fewer employees than the Cheese curls and puffs 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 7.3 2.4 9 0 0
2023 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2019 4.5 4.5 7 0 0
2017 5.0 4.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · OH · Coldwater

253 Cheese curls and puffs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 28 employers in Coldwater, OH · 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 STACYS PLANT 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 027 Warehouse North East 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pretzels 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barrel O'Fun SNack Foods Co., LLC 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rittman Inc dba Mull Iron 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE BNG Miracle Pet LLC 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFA FLUID - SPRINGFIELD OH 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snyder'S-Lance, Inc. 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Totally Promotional 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Casad Company Inc 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Briarwood Village 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCF of Briarwood, Inc. 192 FTE
NAT-TCR TerWisscha Construction, Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Delaware River Stevedores - Tioga Marine Terminal 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Meiwa Industry North America, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Acra Cast 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Slingshot 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Coast Terminals 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Chefs' Warehouse Mid-Atlantic, LLC-Hanover, MD 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hawkins County Memorial Hospital 139 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, 2019, 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.