Croissants, baking, made in commercial bakeries · Kansas

Hostess Brands Emporia

Name: Hostess Brands Emporia Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Emporia, KS · ~549 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Hostess Brands Emporia runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Croissants, baking, made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade A.

Hostess Brands Emporia: 1.4 TCR = 43% of Croissants, baking, made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hostess Brands Emporia safety composite

Hostess Brands Emporia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−1.8

2018→2021

Hostess Brands Emporia injury rate improved

Hostess Brands Emporia's TCR fell 1.8 from 2.1 in 2018 to 0.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.1 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=1.0 · 2021=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Emporia, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 43% of ind

DART 0.3 DART
RANK #4/17
PHOTO Store 588
BOOK 4y book
INJ 38 inj
SIZE ~549 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 588 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Hostess Brands Emporia averages 1.4 TCR (43% of the Croissants, baking, made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

Hostess Brands Emporia TCR series: 2018=2.1 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=1 · 2021=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Hostess Brands Emporia falls in its industry

1,014 Croissants, baking, made in co establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 17 Croissants, baking, made in co employers in Kansas.

Hostess Brands Emporia (549 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hostess Brands Emporia has more employees than the Croissants, baking, made in commercial b median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2021	0.3	0.3	2
2020	1.0	1.0	7
2019	2.3	1.1	15
2018	2.1	1.8	14

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · KS · Emporia

1,014 Croissants, baking, made in commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 63 employers in Emporia, KS · 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	Store 588	SAN DIEGO, CA	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	The Cheesecake Factory Bakery	BATTLEBORO, NC	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Vie de France Atlanta GA	ATLANTA, GA	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	36 Richmond VA	HENRICO, VA	1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 066	LENEXA	549 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bluestem Communities Management, Inc.	NORTH NEWTON	549 FTE
STATE-SIZE	GTM Sportswear	MANHATTAN	553 FTE
STATE-SIZE	KCY	EDWARDSVILLE	553 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EMPORIA PET FOOD	Emporia	848 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Emporia Plant	Emporia	846 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia	Emporia	628 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Newman Regional Health	Emporia	600 FTE
NAT-TCR	Kelly's Foods Concepts - Georgia	Forest Park, GA	1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Alta Equipment Company Kentwood	Kentwood, MI	1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wausau Manufacturing Facility	Wausau, WI	1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dept. of Fish & Game (20)	Homer, AK	1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Pacific Foods	Tualatin, OR	549 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The NPD Group, Inc.	Port Washington, NY	549 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Vi at Bentley Village	Naples, FL	549 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Vidant Edgecombe Hospital	Tarboro, NC	549 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. 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.