Infant and junior food canning · Michigan

Gerber Products - Fremont Plant

Fremont, MI · ~581 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerber Products - Fremont Plant runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Infant and junior food canning workplace, earning a grade A.

Gerber Products - Fremont Plant: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Infant and junior food canning BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerber Products - Fremont Plant safety composite

Gerber Products - Fremont Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Gerber Products - Fremont Plant: 0.5 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2018

Gerber Products - Fremont Plant's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.5 in 2017 to 1.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311422 · Fremont, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK P85
  • PHOTO Campbell Soup Supply…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~581 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Campbell Soup Supply Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerber Products - Fremont Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerber Products - Fremont Plant averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Infant and junior food canning BLS benchmark).

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

Gerber Products - Fremont Plant TCR series: 2017=0.5 · 2018=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Gerber Products - Fremont Plant falls in its industry

67 Infant and junior food canning establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Gerber Products - Fremont Plant (581 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gerber Products - Fremont Plant
Gerber Products - Fremont Plant (581 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Gerber Products - Fremont Plant has more employees than the Infant and junior food canning median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 1.3 0.9 7 0 0
2017 0.5 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311422 · MI · Fremont

67 Infant and junior food canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 19 employers in Fremont, MI · 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 Campbell Soup Supply Company 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Gerber Products Company 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Campbell Soup Supply Company, INC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BDF - Schulenburg TX 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE ZF North America-Northville 581 FTE
STATE-SIZE BUILDING 3 581 FTE
STATE-SIZE Class Valuation LLC 582 FTE
STATE-SIZE McLaren Central Michigan 582 FTE
CITY-NEAR SPECTRUM HEALTH GERBER 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1791 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1791 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR 310 - Fremont MI 243 FTE
NAT-TCR Arthur CUSD #305 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Dow Chemical Company - Joliet, IL 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The State Group Industrial (USA) Limited 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Inolex, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Palmdale 581 FTE
NAT-SIZE SSS 581 FTE
NAT-SIZE SPPAL Corporate 581 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penske : 5076-00 Kroger-DCM/Shelbyville, IN 581 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. 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.