Barbecue sauce manufacturing · Indiana

McCormick South Bend Plant

South Bend, IN · ~121 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McCormick South Bend Plant runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Barbecue sauce manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

McCormick South Bend Plant: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Barbecue sauce manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McCormick South Bend Plant safety composite

McCormick South Bend Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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%).

McCormick South Bend Plant held a steady TCR band

McCormick South Bend Plant's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.4 in 2020 to 1.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.4 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · South Bend, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO BRADENTON FL
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BRADENTON FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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McCormick South Bend Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McCormick South Bend Plant averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Barbecue sauce manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

McCormick South Bend Plant TCR series: 2020=1.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where McCormick South Bend Plant falls in its industry

330 Barbecue sauce manufacturing establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Barbecue sauce manufacturing employers in Indiana.

McCormick South Bend Plant (121 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 McCormick South Bend Plant
McCormick South Bend Plant (121 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

McCormick South Bend Plant has fewer employees than the Barbecue sauce manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 1.7 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · IN · South Bend

330 Barbecue sauce manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 318 employers in South Bend, 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 BRADENTON FL 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TomaTek 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Troyer 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Central Indiana REMC 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Indiana Insulation LLC 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Lamination 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri Wall International Paper 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital South Bend 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph County 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fourwinds Casino South Bend 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell IN08 810 FTE
NAT-TCR Chromalloy Material Solutions 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation US UT Hill AFB South Gate (3994) 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AquaPhoenix Scientific -TX 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NGDS-TX24 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jasper Lumber Company, LLC 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apache Products Inc 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brisco Apparel Company 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10474 Katy 121 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, 2020. 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.