Commercial bakeries · Montana

Franz Bakery

Billings, MT · ~104 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Franz Bakery runs at 336% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade F.

Franz Bakery: 11.1 TCR = 336% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Franz Bakery safety composite

Franz Bakery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Franz Bakery held a steady TCR band

Franz Bakery's TCR held near 0.3 from 9.8 in 2016 to 10.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.8 · 2023=13.4 · 2024=10.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Billings, MT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 336% of ind

  • DART 10.1 DART
  • RANK P9
  • PHOTO LARDER BAKING COMPANY
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LARDER BAKING COMPANY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Franz Bakery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Franz Bakery averages 11.1 TCR (336% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Franz Bakery TCR series: 2016=9.8 · 2023=13.4 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Franz Bakery falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Franz Bakery (104 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Franz Bakery
Franz Bakery (104 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Franz Bakery has fewer employees than the Commercial bakeries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 10.1 10.1 10 0 0
2023 13.4 11.5 14 0 0
2016 9.8 6.9 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · MT · Billings

1,014 Commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 327 employers in Billings, MT · 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 LARDER BAKING COMPANY 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt Clemens Sales Branch 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 624 Jacksonville NC 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Paso Prepared Foods, LLC 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Super 1 Foods Evergreen 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4054-000000019 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABS-0030-0030-00047 FAC-00047-BILLINGS-MT 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE VSR LLC 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Billings Clinic Hospital 2,366 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Vincent Healthcare 1,860 FTE
CITY-NEAR Billings Clinic Downtown Campus 1,223 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Lutheran Ministries 651 FTE
NAT-TCR Sail Energy LLC dba Vaughn Oil 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Beehive Buildings Holdings Inc 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DMWN - Fillmore 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CITE Armored Batesville 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Raeco Builders LLC 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Textron Aviation - CSC Mesa 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amherst 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ball Ground GA 104 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, 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.