Breakfast cereals manufacturing · California

Kerry Ingredients

Mecca, CA · ~72 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

Kerry Ingredients runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Breakfast cereals manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kerry Ingredients: 6.7 TCR = 202% of Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kerry Ingredients safety composite

Kerry Ingredients scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Kerry Ingredients held a steady TCR band

Kerry Ingredients's TCR held near 0.0 from 6.7 in 2020 to 6.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.7 · 2021=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311230 · Mecca, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK P7
  • PHOTO Kerry Blue Earth
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kerry Blue Earth (0.2 TCR gap)

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Kerry Ingredients in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kerry Ingredients averages 6.7 TCR (202% of the Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kerry Ingredients TCR series: 2020=6.7 · 2021=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Kerry Ingredients falls in its industry

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturin establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kerry Ingredients (72 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kerry Ingredients
Kerry Ingredients (72 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Kerry Ingredients has fewer employees than the Breakfast cereals manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 6.7 6.7 5 0 0
2020 6.7 6.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311230 · CA · Mecca

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 9 employers in Mecca, 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 Kerry Blue Earth 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stoltze Specialty Processing 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Attune Foods 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bridgetown Natural Foods 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monterey Pacific, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arts Ranch 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greg Hooker dba Diamond H Dairy 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richard Bagdasarian, Inc. 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illume Ag HR, Inc. 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bagdasarian Services, LLC 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mecca Location 212 FTE
NAT-TCR Forest Hills Commens 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas TJ Maxx Distribution Center 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Destination Residences Snowmass 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR LMI - STC - Hwy 94 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kerkstra Precast-Trenton 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Modern Drywall, Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Molly Construction, Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Favorite Brands - Austin 72 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.