Cheese curls and puffs manufacturing · Ohio

Mikesell's Potato Chip Co

Dayton, OH · ~77 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mikesell's Potato Chip Co runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese curls and puffs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Mikesell's Potato Chip Co: 7.5 TCR = 183% of Cheese curls and puffs manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mikesell's Potato Chip Co safety composite

Mikesell's Potato Chip Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Mikesell's Potato Chip Co: 5.0 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2018

Mikesell's Potato Chip Co's TCR rose 5.0 from 5.0 in 2017 to 10.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Dayton, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 183% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #26/27
  • PHOTO Rudolph Foods Lawren…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rudolph Foods Lawrenceville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mikesell's Potato Chip Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mikesell's Potato Chip Co averages 7.5 TCR (183% of the Cheese curls and puffs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mikesell's Potato Chip Co TCR series: 2017=5 · 2018=10 · BLS 4.1

Where Mikesell's Potato Chip Co falls in its industry

253 Cheese curls and puffs manufac establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 27 Cheese curls and puffs manufac employers in Ohio.

Mikesell's Potato Chip Co (77 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 Mikesell's Potato Chip Co
Mikesell's Potato Chip Co (77 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Mikesell's Potato Chip Co has fewer employees than the Cheese curls and puffs manufacturing 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
2018 10.0 3.8 5 3 0
2017 5.0 5.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · OH · Dayton

253 Cheese curls and puffs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 599 employers in Dayton, 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 Rudolph Foods Lawrenceville 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Facility 1 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Snack Foods, Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crispy Maid 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zanesville Svc Ctr 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grandview Service Center 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Gas Company 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miami Valley Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Dayton 5,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dayton Children's Hospital 3,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR CareSource Management Services LLC 3,172 FTE
NAT-TCR American Maintenance Inc 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Supervalu Distribution Center - Fargo 31411 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5062 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 486 ABC Supply Co., Inc 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Darling Ingredients Union City TN 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marriott Residence Inn Beverly Hills 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chippewa County Road Commission 77 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: 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.