Ice cream manufacturing · Nebraska

Hiland Ice Cream Company

Norfolk, NE · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hiland Ice Cream Company runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ice cream manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hiland Ice Cream Company: 6.1 TCR = 185% of Ice cream manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hiland Ice Cream Company safety composite

Hiland Ice Cream Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−5.9

2019→2023

Hiland Ice Cream Company injury rate improved

Hiland Ice Cream Company's TCR fell 5.9 from 9.1 in 2019 to 3.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.1 · 2023=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311520 · Norfolk, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK P38
  • PHOTO Swirl Holdings
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swirl Holdings (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hiland Ice Cream Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hiland Ice Cream Company averages 6.1 TCR (185% of the Ice cream manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hiland Ice Cream Company TCR series: 2019=9.1 · 2023=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Hiland Ice Cream Company falls in its industry

111 Ice cream manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hiland Ice Cream Company (90 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hiland Ice Cream Company
Hiland Ice Cream Company (90 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Hiland Ice Cream Company has fewer employees than the Ice cream manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2023 3.1 2.1 1 2 0
2019 9.1 7.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311520 · NE · Norfolk

111 Ice cream manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 87 employers in Norfolk, NE · 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 Swirl Holdings 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waterbury 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danone US LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ziegenfelder - Wheeling 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Falewitch Construction Services, Inc. 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE state steel supply OM 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3811 FAMILY FARE (203RD ST, OMAHA, NE) 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unit # 0731 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Faith Regional Health Services West Campus 823 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nucor Steel Nebraska 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR AWG, Norfolk 493 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vulcraft Nebraska 460 FTE
NAT-TCR 613 - Baton Rouge 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Niagara Power Transformer Corp 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Martins Food Markets # 6012 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilmington Rehab Center 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unit #2922 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #2905 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hephzibah Group Home 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #1510 90 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: 2023, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.