Frozen fruit and vegetable processing · Maine

Hancock Plant

Hancock, ME · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hancock Plant runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Frozen fruit and vegetable processing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hancock Plant: 7.5 TCR = 227% of Frozen fruit and vegetable processing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hancock Plant safety composite

Hancock Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−1.2

2022→2024

Hancock Plant injury rate improved

Hancock Plant's TCR fell 1.2 from 3.1 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.1 · 2023=17.4 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 227% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Hanover Foods, Clayt…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hanover Foods, Clayton DE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hancock Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hancock Plant averages 7.5 TCR (227% of the Frozen fruit and vegetable processing BLS benchmark).

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

Hancock Plant TCR series: 2022=3.1 · 2023=17.4 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Hancock Plant falls in its industry

224 Frozen fruit and vegetable pro establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Frozen fruit and vegetable pro employers in Maine.

Hancock Plant (34 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hancock Plant
Hancock Plant (34 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Hancock Plant 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 Fatalities
2024 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2023 17.4 6.5 5 3 0
2022 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Hanover Foods, Clayton DE 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brockport Facility 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vita-Pakt Citrus Products Co 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edible Cuts_Kenosha 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Langford & Low, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Houle's 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ray Labbe & Sons Inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hancock Foods, Inc. 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hancock 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Garbo ME 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viking Inc Hancock 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Valle Verde 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Elens & Maichin Roofing & Sheet Metal, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 70712 Capstone Dollar Tree Sp Cowpens 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gilcrest Feedlot 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Barnes Healthcare Services - Gainesville 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE OSL 10507 Oak Creek Operating LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clayton Metals, Inc 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fusion, Incorporated - Plant 1 34 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.