Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing · Indiana

Kraft Heinz Company

Kendallville, IN · ~300 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kraft Heinz Company runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kraft Heinz Company: 6.5 TCR = 155% of Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kraft Heinz Company safety composite

Kraft Heinz Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kraft Heinz Company: 5.4 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.17× in 2019

Kraft Heinz Company's TCR rose 1.4 from 5.4 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Kendallville, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 155% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO PEZ Manufacturing Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~300 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PEZ Manufacturing Corp. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Kraft Heinz Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kraft Heinz Company averages 6.5 TCR (155% of the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kraft Heinz Company TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=6.8 · BLS 4.2

Where Kraft Heinz Company falls in its industry

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m employers in Indiana.

Kraft Heinz Company (300 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Kraft Heinz Company
Kraft Heinz Company (300 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Kraft Heinz Company has more employees than the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturi 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
2019 6.8 1.1 3 16 0
2018 7.2 2.2 8 12 0
2016 5.4 0.0 1 16 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · IN · Kendallville

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 37 employers in Kendallville, 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 PEZ Manufacturing Corp. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Gold Foods USA LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primrose Candy Company 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Y&S Candies 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE EMCOR Hyre Electric 300 FTE
STATE-SIZE Endress+Hauser USA 300 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cummins-Meritor Plainfield 300 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2276 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR LSC Communications 488 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1388 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1388 291 FTE
NAT-TCR JM Farms Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TNI - Earth City, MO 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tuff Shed Store 210 - Houston - SC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 1759 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Firth Rixson - Savannah 300 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer inc - store 56 300 FTE
NAT-SIZE Motor Truck Equipment Company/DBA Kenworth of PA 300 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : ATL7 300 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: 2019, 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.