Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · Ohio

Gerber and Sons Inc

Baltic, OH · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerber and Sons Inc runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Gerber and Sons Inc: 0.8 TCR = 21% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerber and Sons Inc safety composite

Gerber and Sons Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2023→2024

Gerber and Sons Inc injury rate improved

Gerber and Sons Inc's TCR fell 1.6 from 1.6 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Baltic, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 21% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/41
  • PHOTO JFS Milling
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JFS Milling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerber and Sons Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerber and Sons Inc averages 0.8 TCR (21% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gerber and Sons Inc TCR series: 2023=1.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.9

Where Gerber and Sons Inc falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 41 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Ohio.

Gerber and Sons Inc (51 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gerber and Sons Inc
Gerber and Sons Inc (51 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Gerber and Sons Inc has more employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · OH · Baltic

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 9 employers in Baltic, 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 JFS Milling 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global Animal Products, Inc 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arcadia Feed mill 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dickinson 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Portsmouth Service Center 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Gas & Oil 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE 922-NiSource-Zanesville OH-Muskingum Op Ctr 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE GEM Industrial Inc. - Potash PCS 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oak Pointe Nursing and Rehabiliataion 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oak Pointe Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oak Pointe Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Genie Company 85 FTE
NAT-TCR STR0679 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Campbell Soup Supply Company, INC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Huhtamaki 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jamestown Electro Plating Works Inc 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE STR0289 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0580 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fidelitone - Manassas, VA 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Propst Construction Company 51 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. 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.