Commercial bakeries · Kansas

Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia

Emporia, KS · ~628 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade A.

Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia: 0.8 TCR = 26% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia safety composite

Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.27 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%).

Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia held a steady TCR band

Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.9 in 2022 to 0.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.9 · 2023=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #3/17
  • PHOTO SAN JOSE CA DEPOT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~628 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SAN JOSE CA DEPOT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia averages 0.8 TCR (26% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia TCR series: 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 17 Commercial bakeries employers in Kansas.

Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia (628 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 LLC- Emporia
Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia (628 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia has more employees than the Commercial bakeries 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
2023 0.8 0.3 6 0 0
2022 0.9 0.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · KS · Emporia

1,014 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR SAN JOSE CA DEPOT 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PRESTIGE BREAD COMPANY OF JERSEY CITY INC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FERGUS FALLS MN PLANT 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PIKEVILLE KY DEPOT 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Atlas Aerospace 625 FTE
STATE-SIZE B/E Aerospace Inc (Lenexa KS) 631 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abilene 620 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific Lenexa, KS (MBD) 617 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMPORIA PET FOOD 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emporia Plant 846 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newman Regional Health 600 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMPORIA FLEX PLANT 574 FTE
NAT-TCR BT San Diego 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Spike Enterprise, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Colite 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Anning-Johnson Company Georgia 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fairmont Grand Del Mar 628 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lubrizol - Deer Park 628 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Knox Village of Florida 628 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital 628 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.