Tea, herbal, manufacturing · Oregon

East West Tea Company

Eugene, OR · ~207 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

East West Tea Company runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Tea, herbal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

East West Tea Company: 2.3 TCR = 57% of Tea, herbal, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

East West Tea Company safety composite

East West Tea Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−0.6

2021→2024

East West Tea Company injury rate improved

East West Tea Company's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.3 in 2021 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.3 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311920 · Eugene, OR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 57% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Starbucks Company Yo…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~207 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Starbucks Company York Roasting Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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East West Tea Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows East West Tea Company averages 2.3 TCR (57% of the Tea, herbal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

East West Tea Company TCR series: 2021=2.3 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 4.1

Where East West Tea Company falls in its industry

169 Tea, herbal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Tea, herbal, manufacturing employers in Oregon.

East West Tea Company (207 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 East West Tea Company
East West Tea Company (207 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

East West Tea Company has more employees than the Tea, herbal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 1.7 1.1 3 0 0
2023 2.9 2.0 2 4 0
2022 2.4 2.4 4 0 0
2021 2.3 2.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311920 · OR · Eugene

169 Tea, herbal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 466 employers in Eugene, OR · 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 Starbucks Company York Roasting Plant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Freehold 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR EQUAL EXCHANGE, INC. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR JMS Foodservice LLC - Harahan 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE PSC Line Ops 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boardman Foods Incorporated 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dave's Killer Bread 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eugene ELP 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR MATT KNIGHT ARENA 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hult Center for the Performing Arts 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHMG PHOR Clinics 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHMC at University District 564 FTE
NAT-TCR ProMed Molded Products - 23rd Ave 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Greco and Haines, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 3861 - Dallas Sortation Center 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Water Gremlin 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0912 - Chino Hills Grand Avenue 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lactalis Heritage Dairy - Wausau 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Living - Westminster Thurber 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ergon West Virginia, Inc. 207 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. 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.