Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Ohio

BEF Lima

Lima, OH · ~291 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BEF Lima runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade B.

BEF Lima: 2.9 TCR = 71% of Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BEF Lima safety composite

BEF Lima scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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 Lima: 2.8 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2024

BEF Lima's TCR rose 0.5 from 2.8 in 2021 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Lima, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 71% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #6/22
  • PHOTO Garden Highway
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~291 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garden Highway (0.0 TCR gap)

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BEF Lima in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BEF Lima averages 2.9 TCR (71% of the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

BEF Lima TCR series: 2021=2.8 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 4.1

Where BEF Lima falls in its industry

376 Prepared meals, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 22 Prepared meals, perishable, pa employers in Ohio.

BEF Lima (291 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate BEF Lima
BEF Lima (291 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

BEF Lima has more employees than the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 3.3 3.3 11 0 0
2023 3.9 3.1 15 0 0
2022 1.7 1.2 7 0 0
2021 2.8 2.0 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · OH · Lima

376 Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale 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 Garden Highway 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CTI Foods, LLC. Soups 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Foods Division 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor Farms Illinois 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gutridge 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bemis North America - Fremont 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1521 291 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 Pittsburgh Branch 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bingman's Painting Service, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SEFA Group (SIS) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR McDaniel Contractor Services, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE DC 04 - Torrance 291 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skylease I Inc 291 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great American Snacks NAMPA 291 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goddard Space Flight Center 291 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. 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.