Fruits, frozen, manufacturing · Maine

Cherryfield Plant

Cherryfield, ME · ~97 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cherryfield Plant runs at 378% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fruits, frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Cherryfield Plant: 12.5 TCR = 378% of Fruits, frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cherryfield Plant safety composite

Cherryfield Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.7

2016→2021

Cherryfield Plant injury rate improved

Cherryfield Plant's TCR fell 4.7 from 12.0 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 17.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.0 · 2017=14.1 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=17.4 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311411 · Cherryfield, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 378% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO National Frozen Food…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: National Frozen Foods - Processing (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cherryfield Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cherryfield Plant averages 12.5 TCR (378% of the Fruits, frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cherryfield Plant TCR series: 2016=12 · 2017=14.1 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=17.4 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Cherryfield Plant falls in its industry

224 Fruits, frozen, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Fruits, frozen, manufacturing employers in Maine.

Cherryfield Plant (97 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cherryfield Plant
Cherryfield Plant (97 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Cherryfield Plant has fewer employees than the Fruits, frozen, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2021 7.3 2.7 3 5 0
2020 8.8 2.9 4 5 0
2019 17.4 9.2 13 4 0
2018 15.2 5.1 10 5 0
2017 14.1 8.7 11 2 0
2016 12.0 6.0 10 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311411 · ME · Cherryfield

224 Fruits, frozen, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 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 National Frozen Foods - Processing 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunRype Concentrates, Inc. 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bebegol Inc. 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Frozen Foods Corporation 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Versant Power Telcom Ops Center 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE B&G Foods NA Inc 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE International N&H USA, INC. 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pleasant River Lumber 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherryfield Foods inc - Farm division 44 FTE
NAT-TCR United Producers, Inc. - Bucyrus 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR el super #14 Covina 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1123 Rochester 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HG382 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Altercare of Bucyrus 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lazy Acres Mission Hills 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE White Castle Distributing LLC - Covington 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bear Mountain Lowell LLC 97 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.