Breakfast cereals manufacturing · Ohio

Lancaster Ohio

Lancaster, OH · ~221 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lancaster Ohio runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Breakfast cereals manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Lancaster Ohio: 2.1 TCR = 63% of Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lancaster Ohio safety composite

Lancaster Ohio scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.9

2021→2024

Lancaster Ohio injury rate improved

Lancaster Ohio's TCR fell 1.9 from 2.7 in 2021 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.7 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311230 · Lancaster, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO General Mills Inc. -…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~221 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Mills Inc. - Cedar Rapids Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lancaster Ohio in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lancaster Ohio averages 2.1 TCR (63% of the Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lancaster Ohio TCR series: 2021=2.7 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Lancaster Ohio falls in its industry

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturin establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Breakfast cereals manufacturin employers in Ohio.

Lancaster Ohio (221 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lancaster Ohio
Lancaster Ohio (221 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Lancaster Ohio has fewer employees than the Breakfast cereals manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2023 1.7 0.6 3 0 0
2022 3.1 1.8 7 0 0
2021 2.7 1.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311230 · OH · Lancaster

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 96 employers in Lancaster, 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 Inc. - Cedar Rapids Plant 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills (Albuquerque) 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northfield South Distribution Center 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tremonton Mill 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mennel Bakery Mix & Foodservice, LLC 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lubrizol - Avon Lake 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chardon Pentair Water Filtration 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Polaris Austintown 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfield Medical Center 2,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anchor Hocking Plant 1 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anchor Hocking 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH 329 FTE
NAT-TCR Barry Concrete, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Mt Gilead 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Catalina Island Camps, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dch Ford of Eatontown 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hexcel Corporation 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Aircraft, Inc. 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Automotive Systems, Inc. 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE 242 - Lenox Twp MI 221 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, 2021. 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.