Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing · California

HIMLF - Lake Forest

Lake Forest, CA · ~288 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HIMLF - Lake Forest runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

HIMLF - Lake Forest: 4.7 TCR = 116% of Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HIMLF - Lake Forest safety composite

HIMLF - Lake Forest scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Rising injury rate

HIMLF - Lake Forest: 3.7 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2020

HIMLF - Lake Forest's TCR rose 2.0 from 3.7 in 2019 to 5.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Lake Forest, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 116% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #17/26
  • PHOTO Sonstegard Foods of …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~288 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sonstegard Foods of Arkansas (0.0 TCR gap)

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HIMLF - Lake Forest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HIMLF - Lake Forest averages 4.7 TCR (116% of the Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HIMLF - Lake Forest TCR series: 2019=3.7 · 2020=5.8 · BLS 4.1

Where HIMLF - Lake Forest falls in its industry

335 Drink powder mixes (except cho establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 26 Drink powder mixes (except cho employers in California.

HIMLF - Lake Forest (288 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 HIMLF - Lake Forest
HIMLF - Lake Forest (288 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

HIMLF - Lake Forest has more employees than the Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, co median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2020 5.8 4.5 13 5 0
2019 3.7 3.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · CA · Lake Forest

335 Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 90 employers in Lake Forest, CA · 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 Sonstegard Foods of Arkansas 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookfield 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY 0045 8225 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sugar Foods Villa Rica 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Coast Vineyard Management Inc 288 FTE
STATE-SIZE Famarock dba Rockenwagner 288 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anheuser-Busch Fairfield Brewery 288 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carlton Forge Works 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR Panasonic Avionics Corporation 2,047 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARB, Inc. 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spectrum Brands, Lake Forest 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential, Inc., Lake Forest 594 FTE
NAT-TCR Pompano - MB 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR DI - RASM-W Ft Hood 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gratiot Family Practice - Alma 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR West Coast Roofing, LLC 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE WABCO Compressors 288 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITR Concession Company, LLC. 288 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Little Rock) 288 FTE
NAT-SIZE Options 288 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: 2020, 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.