Breakfast cereals manufacturing · Ohio

General Mills

Cincinnati, OH · ~228 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Mills runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Breakfast cereals manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

General Mills: 3.2 TCR = 98% of Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Mills safety composite

General Mills scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

General Mills held a steady TCR band

General Mills's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.8 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.8 · 2019=2.5 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311230 · Cincinnati, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 98% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO General Mills Albuqu…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~228 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Mills Albuquerque (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Mills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Mills averages 3.2 TCR (98% of the Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

General Mills TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2019=2.5 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where General Mills falls in its industry

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturin establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Breakfast cereals manufacturin employers in Ohio.

General Mills (228 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate General Mills
General Mills (228 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8

General Mills has fewer employees than the Breakfast cereals manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 2.9 0.7 5 3 0
2023 4.7 4.3 13 0 0
2019 2.5 1.5 7 0 0
2017 2.8 0.8 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311230 · OH · Cincinnati

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, OH · 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 General Mills Albuquerque 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joplin Cereal Division 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills Covington Site 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grain Millers Inc 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schwebel's Youngstown Bakery 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Altenloh, Brinck & Co., U.S., Inc. 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Machine and Engineering - Third Street 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE CTL Aerospace Inc. 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Fullerton 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fujifilm North America Corporation, Cypress, CA 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas Store 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR SGL Technic LLC 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE S02928 - Jackson Hauling 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Assisted Home Hospice 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westwood 228 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, 2019, 2017. 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.