Frozen fruit and vegetable processing · Maine

Hancock Foods, Inc.

Name: Hancock Foods, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hancock, ME · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 10.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Hancock Foods, Inc. runs at 325% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Frozen fruit and vegetable processing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hancock Foods, Inc.: 10.7 TCR = 325% of Frozen fruit and vegetable processing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hancock Foods, Inc. safety composite

Hancock Foods, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 10.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Hancock Foods, Inc.: 8.3 → 16.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 16.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2020

Hancock Foods, Inc.'s TCR rose 8.4 from 8.3 in 2016 to 16.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311411 · Hancock, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 325% of ind

DART 6.7 DART
RANK #6/7
PHOTO Cherryfield Plant
BOOK 5y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cherryfield Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Packaging

10.9
This site

10.7
Cherryfield Pl

10.7
Maine Wild Blu

10.5
PNW Veg Co LLC

10.3

What this shows Hancock Foods, Inc. averages 10.7 TCR (325% of the Frozen fruit and vegetable processing BLS benchmark).

Hancock Foods, Inc. TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=9 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=12.7 · 2020=16.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Hancock Foods, Inc. falls in its industry

224 Frozen fruit and vegetable pro establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Frozen fruit and vegetable pro employers in Maine.

Hancock Foods, Inc. (33 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Hancock Foods, Inc. has fewer employees than the Frozen fruit and vegetable processing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2020	16.8	6.7	2	3
2019	12.7	3.2	1	3
2018	6.8	3.4	1	1
2017	9.0	0.0	2	1
2016	8.3	4.2	3	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311411 · ME · Hancock

224 Frozen fruit and vegetable processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 6 employers in Hancock, ME · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Cherryfield Plant	CHERRTFIELD, ME	10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Packaging	CHEHALIS, WA	10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Maine Wild Blueberry co	MACHIAS, ME	10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PNW Veg Co LLC dba Norpac	SALEM, OR	10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	CedarWorks Inc	ROCKLAND	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hanington Bros., Inc	MACWAHOC PLT	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	PWF Wyman Fossil Plant	YARMOUTH	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	EL Shea Inc	ELLSWORTH	33 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hancock Plant	Hancock	34 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hancock	Hancock	32 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Garbo ME	Hancock	32 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Viking Inc Hancock	Hancock	24 FTE
NAT-TCR	The Home at Taylor's Pointe	Cincinnati, OH	10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	RC	Richland Center, WI	10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Straits Steel and Wire	Ludington, MI	10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	4054-Abs 0018 0564	Portland, OR	10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	0000000136 Quickchek Food Stores	Jackson, NJ	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Advanced Disposal - Wausau	Schofield, WI	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	165 Quickchek Food Store 165	Cedar Knolls, NJ	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0000000145 Quickchek Food Store 145	Farmingdale, NJ	33 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.