Potato chips manufacturing · Arizona

Frito Lay - Casa Grande

Casa Grande, AZ · ~350 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Frito Lay - Casa Grande runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Frito Lay - Casa Grande: 4.7 TCR = 115% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Frito Lay - Casa Grande safety composite

Frito Lay - Casa Grande scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−3.5

2016→2018

Frito Lay - Casa Grande injury rate improved

Frito Lay - Casa Grande's TCR fell 3.5 from 6.3 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Casa Grande, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 115% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Machesney Park
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~350 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Machesney Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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Frito Lay - Casa Grande in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Frito Lay - Casa Grande averages 4.7 TCR (115% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Frito Lay - Casa Grande TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=2.9 · BLS 4.1

Where Frito Lay - Casa Grande falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Arizona.

Frito Lay - Casa Grande (350 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Frito Lay - Casa Grande
Frito Lay - Casa Grande (350 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Frito Lay - Casa Grande has more employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2018 2.9 2.6 12 0 0
2017 4.9 4.2 19 0 0
2016 6.3 5.8 23 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · AZ · Casa Grande

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 123 employers in Casa Grande, AZ · 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 Machesney Park 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snyder's-Lance Inc. IN 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 075 Hainesport NJ 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Skin Food Group 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Avanti Windows & Doors (Glendale) 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hayden Operations 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ultra Clean Technology - Chandler 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE L3Harris Technologies 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lucid Motors AMP-1 1,803 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7013 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7013 828 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tractor Supply Company Distribution Center 0111 515 FTE
NAT-TCR N and R of Clinton LLC 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3122 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Manhattan South (Nymns) 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Flint (Mifli) 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coffeyville Resources 350 FTE
NAT-SIZE COLSA Corporation - Florida 350 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marietta Corporation-Central Ave Properties Inc. 350 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Distributing Company 1 350 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.