Chocolate coatings and syrups made from purchased chocolate · Kansas

Kerry Ingredients

Name: Kerry Ingredients Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

New Century, KS · ~141 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.9
Avg TCR: 4.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Kerry Ingredients runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chocolate coatings and syrups made from purchased chocolate workplace, earning a grade C.

Kerry Ingredients: 4.9 TCR = 118% of Chocolate coatings and syrups made from purchased chocolate BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kerry Ingredients safety composite

Kerry Ingredients scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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).

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

−5.9

2020→2021

Kerry Ingredients injury rate improved

Kerry Ingredients's TCR fell 5.9 from 7.9 in 2020 to 2.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.9 · 2021=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311352 · New Century, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 118% of ind

DART 2.0 DART
RANK #6/6
PHOTO Leclerc Foods Tennes…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Leclerc Foods Tennessee (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Kerry Ingredients averages 4.9 TCR (118% of the Chocolate coatings and syrups made from purchased chocolate BLS benchmark).

Kerry Ingredients TCR series: 2020=7.9 · 2021=2 · BLS 4.2

Where Kerry Ingredients falls in its industry

86 Chocolate coatings and syrups establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Chocolate coatings and syrups employers in Kansas.

Kerry Ingredients (141 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Kerry Ingredients has more employees than the Chocolate coatings and syrups made from median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2021	2.0	2.0	3	0	0
2020	7.9	5.3	12	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311352 · KS · New Century

86 Chocolate coatings and syrups made from purchased chocolate employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 24 employers in New Century, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Leclerc Foods Tennessee	KINGSPORT, TN	4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Edward Marc Brands, Inc.	PITTSBURGH, PA	5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pine-Lake Champlain Chocolates	BURLINGTON, VT	4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Wolfgang Operations, LLC	YORK, PA	5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Dot's Lenexa	LENEXA	141 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Topeka Baked Plant	TOPEKA	141 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Koch Cabinets Hiawatha	HIAWATHA	141 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Midwest	OTTAWA	141 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - MCI7	New Century	488 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Global Specialty Fulfillment : MCI7	New Century	481 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Stouse LLC	New Century	385 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Upfield Sourcing US Inc. - New Century	New Century	353 FTE
NAT-TCR	136 San Francisco Gallery	San Francisco, CA	4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Vernon Manor HCC	Vernon, CT	4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	HG449	Monroe, NY	4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Atlantic Aviation - SUN	Hailey, ID	4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Dot Transportation, Inc.- AZ	Bullhead, AZ	141 FTE
NAT-SIZE	EI102 - Metro Region Headquarters	St. Paul, MN	141 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Graham Construction Company, Inc.	Des Moines, IA	141 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ProHealth Home Care and Angle's Grace Hospice	Hartland, WI	141 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.