Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing · Indiana

Gary Poppins

Knox, IN · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gary Poppins runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Gary Poppins: 9.1 TCR = 216% of Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gary Poppins safety composite

Gary Poppins scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−4.6

2022→2024

Gary Poppins injury rate improved

Gary Poppins's TCR fell 4.6 from 11.6 in 2022 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=11.6 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Knox, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 216% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Spangler Candy Co.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spangler Candy Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gary Poppins in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gary Poppins averages 9.1 TCR (216% of the Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gary Poppins TCR series: 2022=11.6 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=7 · BLS 4.2

Where Gary Poppins falls in its industry

123 Popcorn, candy covered popped, establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Popcorn, candy covered popped, employers in Indiana.

Gary Poppins (21 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Gary Poppins
Gary Poppins (21 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Gary Poppins has fewer employees than the Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2023 8.6 8.6 2 0 0
2022 11.6 11.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · IN · Knox

123 Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 19 employers in Knox, IN · 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 Spangler Candy Co. 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Impact Confections 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR YouBar 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hammond's Candies Since 1920, II LLC 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastside Dairy, LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deer Ridge 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 5 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 3 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Traffic Control Specialists, LLC. 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR MPI Knox 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starke Hospital 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knox Hospital Company LLC 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Garfield Memorial Hospital Nursing Care Facility 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wesley Enhanced Living at Stapeley 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR George L. Throop Company 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohspf - Springfield Center 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE The G.C. Broach Co. SHOP 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home2Suites - SSI 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maguire O'Hara Construction 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrington Factory 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, 2022. 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.