Flavoring concentrates (except coffee based) manufacturing · Indiana

Heartland Food Products Group Plant

Name: Heartland Food Products Group Plant Workplace Safety Data
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Carmel, IN · ~698 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.4
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Heartland Food Products Group Plant runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Flavoring concentrates (except coffee based) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Heartland Food Products Group Plant: 2.4 TCR = 57% of Flavoring concentrates (except coffee based) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Food Products Group Plant safety composite

Heartland Food Products Group Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−0.7

2020→2021

Heartland Food Products Group Plant injury rate improved

Heartland Food Products Group Plant's TCR fell 0.7 from 2.7 in 2020 to 2.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.7 · 2021=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311930 · Carmel, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 57% of ind

DART 1.0 DART
RANK #3/5
PHOTO California Natural P…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 32 inj
SIZE ~698 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: California Natural Products (0.1 TCR gap)

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2.4
California Nat

2.3
Synergy Flavor

2.3
Mother Murphy'

2.2
R. Torre & CO

2.2

What this shows Heartland Food Products Group Plant averages 2.4 TCR (57% of the Flavoring concentrates (except coffee based) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Heartland Food Products Group Plant TCR series: 2020=2.7 · 2021=2 · BLS 4.1

Where Heartland Food Products Group Plant falls in its industry

96 Flavoring concentrates (except establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Flavoring concentrates (except employers in Indiana.

Heartland Food Products Group Plant (698 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Heartland Food Products Group Plant has more employees than the Flavoring concentrates (except coffee ba median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2021	2.0	1.0	14	0	0
2020	2.7	1.5	18	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311930 · IN · Carmel

96 Flavoring concentrates (except coffee based) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 157 employers in Carmel, IN · 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	California Natural Products	LATHROP, CA	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Synergy Flavors, Inc.	WAUCONDA, IL	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mother Murphy's Elm	GREENSBORO, NC	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	R. Torre & CO Inc.	SAN LEANDRO, CA	2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Evansville Bakery	EVANSVILLE	698 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Crown Equipment Corporation	GREENCASTLE	698 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Futaba Indiana of America	VINCENNES	698 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Terre Haute Regional Hospital	TERRE HAUTE	698 FTE
CITY-NEAR	North Hospital	Carmel	1,776 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Indiana University Health North Hospital, Inc.	Carmel	1,208 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WW, RCI - Call Center, 9998 N. Michigan	Carmel	1,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AutoVIN	Carmel	706 FTE
NAT-TCR	AWS - Troy	Troy, NC	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	ZF-Lebanon	Lebanon, TN	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	NYA	New York, NY	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	ELP Airport - 342	El Paso, TX	2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Borger Refinery	Borger, TX	698 FTE
NAT-SIZE	TDS Austin	Buda, TX	698 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ATL - Ground Ops	Atlanta, GA	698 FTE
NAT-SIZE	County of Surry	Dobson, NC	698 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: 2021, 2020. 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.