Bakeries with baking from flour on the premises, retailing not for immediate consumption · Indiana

Hostess Brands, LLC

Indianapolis, IN · ~152 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hostess Brands, LLC runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bakeries with baking from flour on the premises, retailing not for immediate consumption workplace, earning a grade F.

Hostess Brands, LLC: 6.7 TCR = 203% of Bakeries with baking from flour on the premises, retailing not for immediate consumption BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hostess Brands, LLC safety composite

Hostess Brands, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2016→2018

Hostess Brands, LLC injury rate improved

Hostess Brands, LLC's TCR fell 5.9 from 9.7 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.7 · 2018=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311811 · Indianapolis, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 203% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO 060 BAKERY PLANT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 060 BAKERY PLANT (0.2 TCR gap)

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Hostess Brands, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hostess Brands, LLC averages 6.7 TCR (203% of the Bakeries with baking from flour on the premises, retailing not for immediate consumption BLS benchmark).

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

Hostess Brands, LLC TCR series: 2016=9.7 · 2018=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Hostess Brands, LLC falls in its industry

80 Bakeries with baking from flou establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Bakeries with baking from flou employers in Indiana.

Hostess Brands, LLC (152 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 05001,0001,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hostess Brands, LLC
Hostess Brands, LLC (152 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hostess Brands, LLC has more employees than the Bakeries with baking from flour on the p median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2018 3.8 2.3 5 0 0
2016 9.7 8.9 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311811 · IN · Indianapolis

80 Bakeries with baking from flour on the premises, retailing not for immediate consumption 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 060 BAKERY PLANT 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Bakery 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Homestead Baking Company Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ever Better Eating Inc 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beaty Construction 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phillips and Jordan, Incorporated - AEP Master Agreement Sub Physical Security 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plymouth Food Service Packaging 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Book Company - Crawfordsville North 152 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 Lyman Products 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR RAM Pavement Services, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR WC Winston-Salem 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elgin Separation Solutions 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Sanford 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amcor Rigid Plastics Millville 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Independence Health System, Inc. 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Production LLC - Marion Road Plant 152 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.