Frozen side dishes manufacturing · Ohio

Lake Erie Frozen Foods

Ashland, OH · ~85 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Erie Frozen Foods runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Frozen side dishes manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Lake Erie Frozen Foods: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Frozen side dishes manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Erie Frozen Foods safety composite

Lake Erie Frozen Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

−0.9

2017→2024

Lake Erie Frozen Foods injury rate improved

Lake Erie Frozen Foods's TCR fell 0.9 from 3.2 in 2017 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.2 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Ashland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #5/21
  • PHOTO General Mills (Wells…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Mills (Wellston) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake Erie Frozen Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Erie Frozen Foods averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Frozen side dishes manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lake Erie Frozen Foods TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Lake Erie Frozen Foods falls in its industry

274 Frozen side dishes manufacturi establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 21 Frozen side dishes manufacturi employers in Ohio.

Lake Erie Frozen Foods (85 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake Erie Frozen Foods
Lake Erie Frozen Foods (85 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Lake Erie Frozen Foods has fewer employees than the Frozen side dishes manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · OH · Ashland

274 Frozen side dishes manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 68 employers in Ashland, OH · 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 General Mills (Wellston) 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frozen Specialty Food Manufacturing - Plant 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dimares Italian Specialty Foods 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Waffle Company 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Foti Contracting LLC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brocon Construction Inc 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE NEO Market 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - COLUMBUS 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashland University 2,668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Medical Center 678 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1448 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1448 368 FTE
NAT-TCR Optical Filters SMR 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Recovery Center 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TSFL 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR VirTra, Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anderson Logging Inc 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gallo Vineyards, Inc. 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ebert Inc 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crosby-Ironton High School 85 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, 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.