Pepper (i.e., spice) manufacturing · Iowa

B&G Foods

Ankeny, IA · ~388 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

B&G Foods runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pepper (i.e., spice) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

B&G Foods: 2.4 TCR = 58% of Pepper (i.e., spice) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

B&G Foods safety composite

B&G Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

B&G Foods held a steady TCR band

B&G Foods's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.5 in 2019 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.5 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Ankeny, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 58% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Virginia Dare Extrac…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~388 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Virginia Dare Extract Co. Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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B&G Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows B&G Foods averages 2.4 TCR (58% of the Pepper (i.e., spice) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

B&G Foods TCR series: 2019=2.5 · 2021=3 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=1 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 4.1

Where B&G Foods falls in its industry

200 Pepper (i.e., spice) manufactu establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Pepper (i.e., spice) manufactu employers in Iowa.

B&G Foods (388 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate B&G Foods
B&G Foods (388 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

B&G Foods has more employees than the Pepper (i.e., spice) manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 Fatalities
2024 2.8 2.3 12 0 0
2023 1.0 0.8 4 0 0
2022 2.5 1.9 9 0 0
2021 3.0 2.8 6 6 0
2019 2.5 1.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · IA · Ankeny

200 Pepper (i.e., spice) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, IA · 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 Virginia Dare Extract Co. Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precise Food Ingredients, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flavor Producers - Sentrex Ingridients, NJ 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tastepoint South 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Highline Warren Performance Packaging 388 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1764 388 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burke Marketing Corporation 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shenandoah Operations 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR Care Center of Dequincy 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hercules Machinery Corporation 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Standard/Taylor Industries, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NNAC, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sheriff's Department 388 FTE
NAT-SIZE Global Power Components, Milwaukee 388 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kittitas Valley Community Hospital (DBA Kittitas Valley Healthcare) 388 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stuttgart Rice Division, Riceland Foods Inc. 388 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, 2019. 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.