Food Manufacturing · Delaware

Dover Plant

Dover, DE · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dover Plant runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dover Plant: 6.4 TCR = 156% of Food Manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dover Plant safety composite

Dover Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−4.4

2016→2024

Dover Plant injury rate improved

Dover Plant's TCR fell 4.4 from 7.8 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2017=11.3 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Dover, DE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 156% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P39
  • PHOTO Turtle Island Foods
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Turtle Island Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dover Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dover Plant averages 6.4 TCR (156% of the Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dover Plant TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=11.3 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Dover Plant falls in its industry

376 Food Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dover Plant (21 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dover Plant
Dover Plant (21 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Dover Plant has fewer employees than the Food Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 3.4 1.6 10 11 0
2023 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2017 11.3 5.7 2 0 0
2016 7.8 7.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · DE · Dover

376 Food Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 138 employers in Dover, DE · 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 Turtle Island Foods 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burnett and Son Meat Co. Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Del Real, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm Fresh Foods 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE NRG Energy Center Dover 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Energy Center Dover, LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Artesian Water Company, Inc. - Sussex Establishment 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ocean Tower Construction LLC 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kent General Hospital 3,064 FTE
CITY-NEAR DE00000045 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - RODNEY 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR DE00000047 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - GATEWAY 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEL0000222 Dover Janitorial 1,028 FTE
NAT-TCR Hellas Fibers 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SLC-481 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Itasca Fire Protection District No. 1 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Faculty Student Association of SUNY at Buffalo Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE RiverRun Press Inc 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adams Outdoor Advertising 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Powers of Mississippi- Metairie 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keyser 21 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, 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.