Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing · Ohio

BEF Foods

Lima, OH · ~360 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BEF Foods runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

BEF Foods: 5.1 TCR = 154% of Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BEF Foods safety composite

BEF Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

BEF Foods: 4.6 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2019

BEF Foods's TCR rose 0.9 from 4.6 in 2017 to 5.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311411 · Lima, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 154% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Appeeling Fruit Hold…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~360 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Appeeling Fruit Holdings, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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BEF Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BEF Foods averages 5.1 TCR (154% of the Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

BEF Foods TCR series: 2017=4.6 · 2019=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where BEF Foods falls in its industry

224 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, a establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, a employers in Ohio.

BEF Foods (360 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate BEF Foods
BEF Foods (360 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3

BEF Foods has more employees than the Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetab median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2019 5.6 4.0 18 0 0
2017 4.6 1.7 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311411 · OH · Lima

224 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 243 employers in Lima, 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 Appeeling Fruit Holdings, LLC. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanover Foods Clayton 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bright Harvest Sweet Potato Company 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cavendish Farms 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Orlando Baking Company 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE Voyant Beauty New Albany 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Service Plastic Molding 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sarnova Corporate Office 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health St Ritas Medical Center 2,540 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Rita's Medical Center 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Ritas Medical Center 2,445 FTE
CITY-NEAR LIMA ENGINE 1,457 FTE
NAT-TCR 002 ABC Supply Co., Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Colorado Springs CO 90-08-45-27 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fannie E Taylor Home for the Aged - Care Center, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Henderson Health Care Services 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE NB Coatings Inc 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lindsay 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkridge Valley Hospital 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri State Distribution, Inc 360 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, 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.