Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing · Nevada

NOW Foods -Sparks

Sparks, NV · ~276 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NOW Foods -Sparks runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

NOW Foods -Sparks: 2.6 TCR = 62% of Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NOW Foods -Sparks safety composite

NOW Foods -Sparks scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

NOW Foods -Sparks: 2.6 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.66× in 2024

NOW Foods -Sparks's TCR rose 2.1 from 2.6 in 2017 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Sparks, NV AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 62% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK P67
  • PHOTO Glanbia Nutritionals
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~276 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Glanbia Nutritionals (0.0 TCR gap)

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NOW Foods -Sparks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NOW Foods -Sparks averages 2.6 TCR (62% of the Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

NOW Foods -Sparks TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=5 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 4.1

Where NOW Foods -Sparks falls in its industry

335 Drink powder mixes (except cho establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
NOW Foods -Sparks (276 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 NOW Foods -Sparks
NOW Foods -Sparks (276 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

NOW Foods -Sparks has more employees than the Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, co median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 4.6 4.3 12 1 0
2023 1.2 1.2 2 1 0
2022 5.0 5.0 2 0 0
2021 1.7 1.7 4 0 0
2020 3.3 3.3 8 0 0
2019 1.2 1.2 3 0 0
2018 0.8 0.8 2 0 0
2017 2.6 1.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · NV · Sparks

335 Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,574 rated employers in Nevada with headcount on file · 321 employers in Sparks, NV · 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 Glanbia Nutritionals 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chr Hansen - West Allis 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GELITA USA Sioux City 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HCA6 276 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Image, LLC dba GTI 276 FTE
STATE-SIZE Casino Fandango 276 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4495 Hacienda 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-NV-Sparks-1-Electric Ave 7,992 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-NV-Sparks-Electric Avenue 7,272 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-NV-Sparks-Electric Avenue-Gigafactory 2,822 FTE
CITY-NEAR NVRNO - RENO HUB 1,324 FTE
NAT-TCR Marshall Medical Center 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lotspeich Contracting, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR WNC Franklin 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Green Rock Correctional Center 276 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wichita 276 FTE
NAT-SIZE Humble 276 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fox Chase Cancer Center Medical Group, Inc. 276 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, 2019, 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.