Granola, cereal (except bars and clusters), manufacturing · Wisconsin

Natures Path Foods

Sussex, WI · ~233 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Natures Path Foods runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Granola, cereal (except bars and clusters), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Natures Path Foods: 4.1 TCR = 124% of Granola, cereal (except bars and clusters), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Natures Path Foods safety composite

Natures Path Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Natures Path Foods: 5.7 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

Natures Path Foods's TCR rose 0.5 from 5.7 in 2020 to 6.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311230 · Sussex, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 124% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK P35
  • PHOTO Natures Path Foods INc
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~233 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Natures Path Foods INc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Natures Path Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Natures Path Foods averages 4.1 TCR (124% of the Granola, cereal (except bars and clusters), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Natures Path Foods TCR series: 2020=5.7 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Natures Path Foods falls in its industry

60 Granola, cereal (except bars a establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Natures Path Foods (233 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Natures Path Foods
Natures Path Foods (233 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Natures Path Foods has more employees than the Granola, cereal (except bars and cluster median and a higher 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 6.1 2.3 16 3 0
2023 2.2 0.6 7 0 0
2022 1.8 1.1 5 0 0
2021 4.7 3.2 11 2 0
2020 5.7 4.6 14 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311230 · WI · Sussex

60 Granola, cereal (except bars and clusters), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 52 employers in Sussex, 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 Natures Path Foods INc 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eugene Mill - Attune Foods 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oats Overnight 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cherry 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ornua Ingredients North America 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manitowoc Tool and Machining, LLC 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wells Vehicle Electronics 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer 283 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR SUSSEX WI 1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DML2 614 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sussex IM, Inc. 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCD Sussex 349 FTE
NAT-TCR Extreme Steel Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Coreslab Structures (Tampa) INC. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Valex Corp 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR US Foods Houston 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Anne's Nursing Center and Residence 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE E Light Electric Services, Inc. 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Refrigeration Supplies Inc 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryder Systems, Inc. 233 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.