Chop suey, frozen, manufacturing · Wisconsin

McCain Foods Plant #9

Appleton, WI · ~462 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McCain Foods Plant #9 runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chop suey, frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

McCain Foods Plant #9: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Chop suey, frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McCain Foods Plant #9 safety composite

McCain Foods Plant #9 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

McCain Foods Plant #9: 1.2 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2019

McCain Foods Plant #9's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.2 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Appleton, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #6/21
  • PHOTO Monogram Appetizers,…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~462 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Monogram Appetizers, LLC - PR (0.0 TCR gap)

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McCain Foods Plant #9 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McCain Foods Plant #9 averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Chop suey, frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

McCain Foods Plant #9 TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where McCain Foods Plant #9 falls in its industry

274 Chop suey, frozen, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 21 Chop suey, frozen, manufacturi employers in Wisconsin.

McCain Foods Plant #9 (462 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 McCain Foods Plant #9
McCain Foods Plant #9 (462 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

McCain Foods Plant #9 has more employees than the Chop suey, frozen, 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
2019 1.6 1.0 7 1 0
2018 1.7 0.9 5 3 0
2017 1.8 0.8 9 0 0
2016 1.2 0.6 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · WI · Appleton

274 Chop suey, frozen, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 356 employers in Appleton, WI · 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 Monogram Appetizers, LLC - PR 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR J.M. Smucker Company 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR LebanonProduction 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Waffle Company 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rhinelander Mill 462 FTE
STATE-SIZE LSC Communications Menasha Print 462 FTE
STATE-SIZE Federal-Mogul Powertrain Systems, LLC, dba Tenneco 462 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vos Electric, Inc. 463 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Regional Medical Center Appleton 1,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Operations 1,321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fox Valley Technical College (WI) 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR Fortuna Builders' Supply, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lobato Construction 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GEA Farm Technologies - Naperville 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-America Conversion Services, LLC - Portsmouth 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE ESAB Welding & Cutting Products 462 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Powdered Metal Company 462 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo & Marin Counties Inc. 462 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital 462 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, 2017, 2016. 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.