Commercial bakeries · Ohio

Nickles-Lima Plant

Name: Nickles-Lima Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lima, OH · ~243 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nickles-Lima Plant runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade F.

Nickles-Lima Plant: 7.5 TCR = 228% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nickles-Lima Plant safety composite

Nickles-Lima Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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).

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers
DART rate: C 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−4.0

2016→2021

Nickles-Lima Plant injury rate improved

Nickles-Lima Plant's TCR fell 4.0 from 8.3 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.3 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=6.5 · 2021=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Lima, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 228% of ind

DART 2.2 DART
RANK #35/39
PHOTO Indy Brook Sales Bra…
BOOK 5y book
INJ 78 inj
SIZE ~243 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indy Brook Sales Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.5
Indy Brook Sal

7.5
Crosskeys

7.5
HERMAN SEEKAMP

7.5
North Liberty

7.5

What this shows Nickles-Lima Plant averages 7.5 TCR (228% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

Nickles-Lima Plant TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=6.5 · 2021=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Nickles-Lima Plant falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 39 Commercial bakeries employers in Ohio.

Nickles-Lima Plant (243 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Nickles-Lima Plant has more employees than the Commercial bakeries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2021	4.3	2.2	8	0
2019	6.5	3.8	9	3
2018	9.3	2.2	21	8
2017	9.1	4.2	21	5
2016	8.3	3.5	19	5

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · OH · Lima

1,014 Commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 243 employers in Lima, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Indy Brook Sales Branch	INDIANAPOLIS, IN	7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Crosskeys	SICKLERVILLE, NJ	7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	HERMAN SEEKAMP DBA CLYDES DELICIOUS DONUTS	ADDISON, IL	7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	North Liberty Iowa	NORTH LIBERTY, IA	7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Kwest Group, LLC.	PERRYSBURG	243 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kalmbach Feeds, Inc.	UPPER SANDUSKY	243 FTE
STATE-SIZE	VWR International - Solon	SOLON	243 FTE
STATE-SIZE	HEXPOL Compounding LLC	BURTON	243 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Health St Ritas Medical Center	Lima	2,540 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Rita's Medical Center	Lima	2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St Ritas Medical Center	Lima	2,445 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LIMA ENGINE	Lima	1,457 FTE
NAT-TCR	Superior Health and Rehab	Conway, AR	7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Drury Inn & Suites - Baton Rouge	Baton Rouge, LA	7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar - Nixa	Nixa, MO	7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	4818-IA03	Cedar Rapids, IA	7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Consolidated Waterproofing Contractors, Inc.	Beltsville, MD	243 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rockleigh Facility	Rockleigh, NJ	243 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jupiter Aluminum Corporation	Hammond, IN	243 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hcc Corporate-Elgin	Elgin, IL	243 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: 2021, 2019, 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.