Cakes, baking (except frozen), made in commercial bakeries · Indiana

Hostess Brands Indy

Indianapolis, IN · ~258 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hostess Brands Indy runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cakes, baking (except frozen), made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade B.

Hostess Brands Indy: 2.1 TCR = 64% of Cakes, baking (except frozen), made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hostess Brands Indy safety composite

Hostess Brands Indy scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−1.5

2020→2021

Hostess Brands Indy injury rate improved

Hostess Brands Indy's TCR fell 1.5 from 2.9 in 2020 to 1.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.9 · 2021=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Indianapolis, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 64% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #8/31
  • PHOTO RIVIERA BEACH FL (OL…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~258 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RIVIERA BEACH FL (OLD DIXIE HWY) DEPOT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hostess Brands Indy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hostess Brands Indy averages 2.1 TCR (64% of the Cakes, baking (except frozen), made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Hostess Brands Indy TCR series: 2020=2.9 · 2021=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Hostess Brands Indy falls in its industry

1,014 Cakes, baking (except frozen), establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 31 Cakes, baking (except frozen), employers in Indiana.

Hostess Brands Indy (258 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Hostess Brands Indy
Hostess Brands Indy (258 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hostess Brands Indy has more employees than the Cakes, baking (except frozen), made in c 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2021 1.4 1.4 4 0 0
2020 2.9 2.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · IN · Indianapolis

1,014 Cakes, baking (except frozen), made in commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 2,074 employers in Indianapolis, IN · 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 RIVIERA BEACH FL (OLD DIXIE HWY) DEPOT 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ANAHEIM CA (HOWELL ST) DEPOT 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mamacita Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corona depot 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Newell Brands - Fishers 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Federal-Mogul South Bend 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Piazza Produce 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE meijer 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana University Health, Inc 7,874 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eli Lilly - Lilly Corp Center 6,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lilly Technology Center 6,472 FTE
NAT-TCR Kando of Cincinnati Inc 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ULTA Beauty 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Smith 45 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Timberline Construction Inc. DBA FB Timberline 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northeast Building Products - Aramingo Ave 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dunes Surgical Hospital 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moderne Glass Co., Inc. 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE LifeCare Assurance Company 258 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. 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.