Potato chips manufacturing · Ohio

Herr Foods Inc. 21

Chillicothe, OH · ~23 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Herr Foods Inc. 21 runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Herr Foods Inc. 21: 6.0 TCR = 146% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Herr Foods Inc. 21 safety composite

Herr Foods Inc. 21 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−5.9

2016→2021

Herr Foods Inc. 21 injury rate improved

Herr Foods Inc. 21's TCR fell 5.9 from 5.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.9 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=11.4 · 2020=13.4 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Chillicothe, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 146% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/27
  • PHOTO Kings Mountain
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kings Mountain (0.0 TCR gap)

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Herr Foods Inc. 21 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Herr Foods Inc. 21 averages 6.0 TCR (146% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Herr Foods Inc. 21 TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=11.4 · 2020=13.4 · 2021=0 · BLS 4.1

Where Herr Foods Inc. 21 falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 27 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Herr Foods Inc. 21 (23 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Herr Foods Inc. 21
Herr Foods Inc. 21 (23 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Herr Foods Inc. 21 has fewer employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 13.4 13.4 3 0 0
2019 11.4 5.7 2 0 0
2018 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.9 5.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · OH · Chillicothe

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 107 employers in Chillicothe, 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 Kings Mountain 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kitchen Cooked - Farmington 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warnock Food Products Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MID EAST PRODUCTION LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schlessman Seed Co 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake County Nursery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE LCN Holdings Inc dba Lake County Nursery 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adena Regional Medical Center 2,921 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kenworth Chillicothe 2,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADENA HEALTH SYSTEM 2,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kenworth Truck Company 2,053 FTE
NAT-TCR NSS 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR A Beka Book, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Climate Pros-Hayward-3550 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR XGH 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Herr Foods Inc. 63 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE B.V. Dairy 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barn Pros, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baycrete, Inc 23 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.