PL · Pennsylvania

Better Baked Foods/Erie

Erie, PA · ~185 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Better Baked Foods/Erie runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical PL workplace, earning a grade D.

Better Baked Foods/Erie: 5.8 TCR = 177% of PL BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Better Baked Foods/Erie safety composite

Better Baked Foods/Erie scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

Better Baked Foods/Erie: 1.1 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2023

Better Baked Foods/Erie's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.1 in 2017 to 2.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Erie, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 177% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO Bernatello's Pizza, …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bernatello's Pizza, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Better Baked Foods/Erie in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Better Baked Foods/Erie averages 5.8 TCR (177% of the PL BLS benchmark).

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

Better Baked Foods/Erie TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=8.9 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Better Baked Foods/Erie falls in its industry

274 PL establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 PL employers in Pennsylvania.

Better Baked Foods/Erie (185 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Better Baked Foods/Erie
Better Baked Foods/Erie (185 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Better Baked Foods/Erie has fewer employees than the PL median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2023 2.1 1.4 3 0 0
2022 6.1 4.7 9 0 0
2020 8.9 8.3 15 0 0
2019 10.3 9.1 17 0 0
2018 6.6 5.8 12 6 0
2017 1.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · PA · Erie

274 PL employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 473 employers in Erie, PA · 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 Bernatello's Pizza, Inc 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSFP - SPECIALTY PLANT 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vineland Plant 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monogram Appetizers Moore Road 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE George E Ritchey 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE PGH 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pleasant Valley Homes, Inc. 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commodore Homes of Pennsylvania 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Erie, PA 5,403 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hamot 2,675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabtec-Erie 2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL 2,135 FTE
NAT-TCR 2915 Lumberton Dc and Se Region Retail Office (Nc) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-Port Angeles 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jabil Packaging Solutions 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kivi Bros Trucking 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cameron Manufacturing & Design 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE 398 Charleston, WV (CORP) 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE RJW Warehouse - Crest Hill 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aging & Adult Services 185 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.