Fish manufacturing · New Hampshire

High Liner Foods Portsmouth

Portsmouth, NH · ~296 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

High Liner Foods Portsmouth runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fish manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

High Liner Foods Portsmouth: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Fish manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

High Liner Foods Portsmouth safety composite

High Liner Foods Portsmouth scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

High Liner Foods Portsmouth: 2.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2017

High Liner Foods Portsmouth's TCR rose 1.7 from 2.0 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311710 · Portsmouth, NH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Acme Smoked Fish -NY
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~296 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Acme Smoked Fish -NY (0.0 TCR gap)

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High Liner Foods Portsmouth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows High Liner Foods Portsmouth averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Fish manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

High Liner Foods Portsmouth TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where High Liner Foods Portsmouth falls in its industry

231 Fish manufacturing establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Hampshire alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Fish manufacturing employers in New Hampshire.

High Liner Foods Portsmouth (296 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 114 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate High Liner Foods Portsmouth
High Liner Foods Portsmouth (296 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 114 employees and a TCR of 5.6

High Liner Foods Portsmouth has more employees than the Fish manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2017 3.7 2.7 9 2 0
2016 2.0 1.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311710 · NH · Portsmouth

231 Fish manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,718 rated employers in New Hampshire with headcount on file · 119 employers in Portsmouth, NH · 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 Acme Smoked Fish -NY 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR E&E Foods 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seatrade International, LLC - New Bedford 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Copper River Seafoods Togiak 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2662-4107 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spaulding Youth Center 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE Globe Manufacturing Company, LLC - New Hampshire 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE Globe Manufacturing Company, LLC 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lonza Portsmouth 1,182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Portsmouth Regional Hospital 1,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR LDRM Visa Support Services NVC-DTSV 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR LDRM Visa Support Services NVC-LWH 330 FTE
NAT-TCR South 601 (Stores) MNE9 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hot Springs Office AKK7 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Oldcastle OPI - Croydon 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wheeling (Wvwhe) 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Signal Pharmaceuticals, LLC 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ripley Entertainment - Gatlinburg 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Forum of Fargo/Moorhead 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nestle Waters North America Allentown West (ALP) 296 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.