Frozen pot pies manufacturing · Massachusetts

Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp

Agawam, MA · ~74 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp runs at 385% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Frozen pot pies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp: 12.7 TCR = 385% of Frozen pot pies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp safety composite

Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp: 4.0 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 20.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2023

Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp's TCR rose 6.3 from 4.0 in 2016 to 10.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 20.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Agawam, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 385% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Dickinson Frozen Foo…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dickinson Frozen Foods Sugar City (0.1 TCR gap)

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Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp averages 12.7 TCR (385% of the Frozen pot pies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=15 · 2019=20.6 · 2020=15.8 · 2021=13.9 · 2022=14 · 2023=10.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp falls in its industry

274 Frozen pot pies manufacturing establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Frozen pot pies manufacturing employers in Massachusetts.

Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp (74 employees, TCR 12.7) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp
Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp (74 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Carando Gourmet Frozen Foods Corp has fewer employees than the Frozen pot pies manufacturing 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 10.3 10.3 7 0 0
2022 14.0 14.0 11 0 0
2021 13.9 12.8 12 0 0
2020 15.8 10.9 13 0 0
2019 20.6 14.1 16 0 0
2018 15.0 10.5 10 0 0
2017 8.2 6.5 5 0 0
2016 4.0 4.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · MA · Agawam

274 Frozen pot pies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 65 employers in Agawam, MA · 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 Dickinson Frozen Foods Sugar City 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tamarack Foods 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bernatello's Pizza, Inc. - Kaukauna Manufacturing 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turri's Italian Foods-RSVL 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Medicinals, Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Boston Solar Company LLC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE SPS/Walsh JV 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Bay State Construction Co., INc. 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson Real Estate Investors, Inc 656 FTE
CITY-NEAR OMG, Inc. 517 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABC Express Delivery, Inc. 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diana's Bakery 308 FTE
NAT-TCR CG Scaffolding Inc. 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Artis Senior Living of Bartlett 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sierra Pacific Industries, Quincy Division 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR D3 Kankakee Yard 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Waters of Sweetwater 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mi Cocina - 7215 Skillman, Dallas 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Extol of Ohio, Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frankfort Fire Protection District 74 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.