Other Snack Food Manufacturing · Indiana

Bluffton

Bluffton, IN · ~144 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bluffton runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Snack Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bluffton: 6.5 TCR = 159% of Other Snack Food Manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bluffton safety composite

Bluffton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Bluffton: 7.4 → 14.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.89× in 2022

Bluffton's TCR rose 7.2 from 7.4 in 2016 to 14.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Bluffton, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 159% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO P14 - Keystone
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: P14 - Keystone (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bluffton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bluffton averages 6.5 TCR (159% of the Other Snack Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bluffton TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=0 · 2018=11.4 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=14.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Bluffton falls in its industry

253 Other Snack Food Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 Other Snack Food Manufacturing employers in Indiana.

Bluffton (144 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Bluffton
Bluffton (144 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Bluffton has fewer employees than the Other Snack Food 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
2022 14.6 12.3 17 9 0
2021 4.8 4.8 4 4 0
2020 4.5 4.0 8 0 0
2019 2.9 2.9 4 0 0
2018 11.4 10.8 18 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.4 1.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · IN · Bluffton

253 Other Snack Food Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 38 employers in Bluffton, IN · 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 P14 - Keystone 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rudolph Foods New Hebron Plant 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aaron Thomas Company Jurupa Valley 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snyder of Berlin Mfg 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Garmong Construction Servies 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arc American, Inc. 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE E & B PAVING LLC - Concrete 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sales Office 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR K181-D181 1,022 FTE
CITY-NEAR 181-DC181 964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hersheys Salty Snacks 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bluffton Motor Works, LLC 358 FTE
NAT-TCR 5836 Chicago IL 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-02682 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Iga #39 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers #143 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4261 Corona CA Container 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Medical Center South Campus 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Donna Bella Farms LLC 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orem Store - 21 144 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.