Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing · Florida

Mestizo Foods, LLC

Ocala, FL · ~87 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mestizo Foods, LLC runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Mestizo Foods, LLC: 8.7 TCR = 212% of Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mestizo Foods, LLC safety composite

Mestizo Foods, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−6.9

2017→2020

Mestizo Foods, LLC injury rate improved

Mestizo Foods, LLC's TCR fell 6.9 from 15.4 in 2017 to 8.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=15.4 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=8.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Ocala, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 212% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Snak King Corp - Chi…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL (0.1 TCR gap)

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Mestizo Foods, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mestizo Foods, LLC averages 8.7 TCR (212% of the Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mestizo Foods, LLC TCR series: 2017=15.4 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=8.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Mestizo Foods, LLC falls in its industry

253 Corn chips and related corn sn establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Corn chips and related corn sn employers in Florida.

Mestizo Foods, LLC (87 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mestizo Foods, LLC
Mestizo Foods, LLC (87 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Mestizo Foods, LLC has fewer employees than the Corn chips and related corn snacks manuf median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2020 8.5 2.1 8 0 0
2019 8.5 0.0 8 0 0
2018 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2017 15.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · FL · Ocala

253 Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 391 employers in Ocala, FL · 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 Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cherry Site 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Potato PH 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Care Florida LLC.-Arcadia 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services Lake City 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal River Nuclear Plant 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Health Ocala 2,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Ocala Hospital 2,064 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Ocala 1,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocala Regional Medical Center 1,342 FTE
NAT-TCR McConnell & Associates - North Kansas City 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie Senior Cottages LLC - Alexandria 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aspire - Pocatello Id 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Meridian Williamsburg Acquisition Partners, LP 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 400 - Tiffin 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Epsilon Plastics 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Closets Fulfillment Inc-WMC 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roberts McNutt 87 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.