Ice cream manufacturing · Indiana

Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream

Fort Wayne, IN · ~499 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Ice cream manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream: 1.0 TCR = 31% of Ice cream manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream safety composite

Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream: 0.3 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2018

Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.3 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311520 · Fort Wayne, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 31% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO SFG - MCKINNEY PLANT
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~499 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SFG - MCKINNEY PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream averages 1.0 TCR (31% of the Ice cream manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream falls in its industry

111 Ice cream manufacturing establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 Ice cream manufacturing employers in Indiana.

Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream (499 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream
Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream (499 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream has more employees than the Ice cream manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2018 1.2 1.0 3 2 0
2017 1.5 1.5 3 4 0
2016 0.3 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311520 · IN · Fort Wayne

111 Ice cream manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, 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 SFG - MCKINNEY PLANT 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BUR 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Direct Store Delivery - Portland 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ColdSnap, Corp. 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kirby Risk Service Center 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE 11202 Indianapolis 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE FSSA Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services (00497) 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE ERMCO 498 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR Roberts Corrosion Services, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas/Coppell (Txcpp) 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Penske : 4163-00 Delphi/Los Indios, TX 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North District Houston ENB3 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Masco Cabinetry/Sayre 499 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Works 499 FTE
NAT-SIZE KIRKWOOD 499 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections 499 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, 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.