Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour · Vermont

King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin

White River Junction, VT · ~47 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin runs at 618% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour workplace, earning a grade F.

King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin: 20.4 TCR = 618% of Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin safety composite

King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 27.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin: 12.4 → 27.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 27.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2024

King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin's TCR rose 14.8 from 12.4 in 2020 to 27.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311824 · White River Junction, VT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.4 · 618% of ind

  • DART 27.1 DART
  • RANK P1
  • PHOTO Perfect 85C
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Perfect 85C (2.4 TCR gap)

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King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin averages 20.4 TCR (618% of the Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour BLS benchmark).

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

King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin TCR series: 2020=12.4 · 2022=25.9 · 2023=16.1 · 2024=27.1 · BLS 3.3

Where King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin falls in its industry

170 Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, c establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin (47 employees, TCR 20.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin
King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin (47 employees, TCR 20.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9

King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Merlin has fewer employees than the Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, dough median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 27.1 27.1 9 1 0
2023 16.1 13.4 6 0 0
2022 25.9 25.9 10 0 0
2020 12.4 12.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311824 · VT · White River Junction

170 Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 16 employers in White River Junction, VT · 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 Perfect 85C 22.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AGT FOODS MINOT EXTRUSION 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nongshim America, Inc. 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PASTA MONTANA 12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silver Maple Construction, LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kingsbury Companies, LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTI Swanton 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rutland 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR King Arthur Flour Co., Inc. - Gen Warehouse & Storage (Avalon) 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR King Arthur Flour Co., Inc. - Other Grocery Prod Merch Whlslrs (Merlin/Excal) 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Gen Warehouse & Storage (Avalon) 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Town Of Hartford 118 FTE
NAT-TCR Pinnacle Pionte Nursing and Rehab Center 20.4 TCR
NAT-TCR M-1 20.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Crosstown Retail 20.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Manning Beef, LLC 20.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 46-Olathe 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willowbend Living Center 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westridge Health Care Center 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eversource - Danielson Elec 47 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.