Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing · Ohio

Nestle Prepared Foods

Solon, OH · ~810 workers · 3 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

Nestle Prepared Foods runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nestle Prepared Foods: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Prepared Foods safety composite

Nestle Prepared Foods 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

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2016→2018

Nestle Prepared Foods injury rate improved

Nestle Prepared Foods's TCR fell 0.5 from 0.8 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.8 · 2017=0.5 · 2018=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Solon, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #2/21
  • PHOTO Nestle Springville F…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~810 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nestle Springville Factory (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nestle Prepared Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nestle Prepared Foods averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nestle Prepared Foods TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=0.5 · 2018=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Nestle Prepared Foods falls in its industry

274 Dinners, frozen (except seafoo establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 21 Dinners, frozen (except seafoo employers in Ohio.

Nestle Prepared Foods (810 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Nestle Prepared Foods
Nestle Prepared Foods (810 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Nestle Prepared Foods has more employees than the Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 0.4 0.3 2 1 0
2017 0.5 0.4 3 1 0
2016 0.8 0.7 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · OH · Solon

274 Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 145 employers in Solon, 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 Nestle Springville Factory 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Pizza Co. - Little Chute 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Prepared Frozen Foods 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR US PL Medford 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Patheon - Reading Road 809 FTE
STATE-SIZE L3 Cincinnati Electronics 811 FTE
STATE-SIZE OH_Columbus_1015 Olentangy River Rd._TWCMOH38 808 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastipak- Jackson Center 813 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swagelok OFC 1,274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Order Fulfillment Center 1,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle USA 1,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swagelok Main Plant 1,051 FTE
NAT-TCR Tri-State Industrial Group, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bose Reservoir 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Electrical Contractor 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Fabricators 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paragon D&E 810 FTE
NAT-SIZE Processing Plant - Pine Mountain Valley, GA 810 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honeywell IN08 810 FTE
NAT-SIZE CITGO Corporate Headquarters 810 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.