Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing · California

Impossible Foods

Oakland, CA · ~169 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Impossible Foods runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Impossible Foods: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Impossible Foods safety composite

Impossible Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Impossible Foods: 2.9 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2024

Impossible Foods's TCR rose 1.0 from 2.9 in 2020 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Oakland, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #2/27
  • PHOTO Marshall MO
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marshall MO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Impossible Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Impossible Foods averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Impossible Foods TCR series: 2020=2.9 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Impossible Foods falls in its industry

274 Nationality specialty foods, f establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 27 Nationality specialty foods, f employers in California.

Impossible Foods (169 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Impossible Foods
Impossible Foods (169 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Impossible Foods has fewer employees than the Nationality specialty foods, frozen, man median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2024 3.9 2.9 4 0 0
2023 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 4 0 0
2020 2.9 2.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · CA · Oakland

274 Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 458 employers in Oakland, 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 Marshall MO 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avanti Foods Company 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Romeoville, IL 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Don Miguel Foods 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adam Gutierrez 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE E & C LABOR SERVICES INC 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE MALAGA SHIPPING 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-South Harvesting, Inc. 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakland Unified School District 4,473 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120301 4,408 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620301 3,210 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02620301 2,922 FTE
NAT-TCR Gulf Coast Companies, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wright Transportation, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Education Programs 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KI High Point, NC Plant 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lifeline Foods 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laredo Transit Management Inc. 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE 620 Owp 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walser Bloomington Toyota 169 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.