Pickles manufacturing · California

Kruger Foods Inc

Stockton, CA · ~128 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kruger Foods Inc runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pickles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kruger Foods Inc: 6.0 TCR = 182% of Pickles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kruger Foods Inc safety composite

Kruger Foods Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.46 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

−1091.7

2017→2023

Kruger Foods Inc injury rate improved

Kruger Foods Inc's TCR fell 1091.7 from 1097.6 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1097.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1097.6 · 2018=3.2 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Stockton, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #29/52
  • PHOTO Seneca Foods Corpora…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kruger Foods Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kruger Foods Inc averages 6.0 TCR (182% of the Pickles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kruger Foods Inc TCR series: 2017=1097.6 · 2018=3.2 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kruger Foods Inc falls in its industry

330 Pickles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 52 Pickles manufacturing employers in California.

Kruger Foods Inc (128 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kruger Foods Inc
Kruger Foods Inc (128 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Kruger Foods Inc has fewer employees than the Pickles manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2023 5.8 1.5 8 0 0
2022 9.1 3.6 9 1 0
2018 3.2 1.9 5 0 0
2017 1097.6 487.8 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · CA · Stockton

330 Pickles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 605 employers in Stockton, 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 Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pemberville Foods Facility 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR POLANER 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hausbeck 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dick Peixoto Company 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE BATTH FARMS 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main operations location 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Services, LLC. 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaSalette Care and Rehabilitation Center 5,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR SCKCX0ABX SCK - ABX 4,573 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-18 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDCR CA Health Care Facility 3,227 FTE
NAT-TCR RK-053-Hamilton ( RK-053 ) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR USM Store #938 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0171 - Sumner Wa (Dry) Depot 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4020 - Fletc 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE USM Store #533 (United) 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eby-Brown Eau Claire 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northeast 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sub Base Galley 128 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: 2023, 2022, 2018, 2017. 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.