Polystyrene Foam Products Manufacturing · California

Food Merchandising : FRESNO

Fresno, CA · ~144 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food Merchandising : FRESNO runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Polystyrene Foam Products Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Food Merchandising : FRESNO: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Polystyrene Foam Products Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food Merchandising : FRESNO safety composite

Food Merchandising : FRESNO scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

Food Merchandising : FRESNO: 1.6 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2022

Food Merchandising : FRESNO's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.6 in 2020 to 2.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Fresno, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #5/14
  • PHOTO Elkhart EPS Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elkhart EPS Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food Merchandising : FRESNO in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food Merchandising : FRESNO averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Polystyrene Foam Products Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Food Merchandising : FRESNO TCR series: 2020=1.6 · 2022=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Food Merchandising : FRESNO falls in its industry

260 Polystyrene Foam Products Manu establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 14 Polystyrene Foam Products Manu employers in California.

Food Merchandising : FRESNO (144 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Food Merchandising : FRESNO
Food Merchandising : FRESNO (144 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Food Merchandising : FRESNO has more employees than the Polystyrene Foam Products 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
2022 2.3 1.5 3 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · CA · Fresno

260 Polystyrene Foam Products Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 981 employers in Fresno, CA · 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 Elkhart EPS Plant 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dart Container North Aurora 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tekni-Plex Wenatchee, WA 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlas Molded Products - Denver 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matsui Nursery, Inc 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilltop Ranch Inc. - Turlock Rd. 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAGO'S CONTRACTING 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE LADWP 1230 3RD 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Fresno 7,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Force LLC 6,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Ctr 5,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Center 4,921 FTE
NAT-TCR Kingsbury Place 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanover Park (formerly Ampac Flexibles, LLC) 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Freeman Company 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 513097-Ffx-Chantilly Br 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 0397 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE 340142-Abq-Richard Pino Sta 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE 033405-Gil-Val Vista Sta 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE 070489-Aur-Main Office Sta 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, 2020. 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.