Canning fruits and vegetables · Ohio

Pemberville Foods Facility

Pemberville, OH · ~60 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pemberville Foods Facility runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Canning fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade D.

Pemberville Foods Facility: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Canning fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pemberville Foods Facility safety composite

Pemberville Foods Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Pemberville Foods Facility: 5.2 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Pemberville Foods Facility's TCR rose 3.5 from 5.2 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Pemberville, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #21/23
  • PHOTO Kruger Foods Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kruger Foods Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pemberville Foods Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pemberville Foods Facility averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Canning fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Pemberville Foods Facility TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=8.5 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Pemberville Foods Facility falls in its industry

330 Canning fruits and vegetables establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 23 Canning fruits and vegetables employers in Ohio.

Pemberville Foods Facility (60 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pemberville Foods Facility
Pemberville Foods Facility (60 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Pemberville Foods Facility has fewer employees than the Canning fruits and vegetables median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 8.6 6.5 4 0 0
2023 7.6 5.1 3 0 0
2022 4.3 2.2 1 1 0
2021 5.4 4.5 6 0 0
2019 8.5 1.7 3 2 0
2018 6.5 4.9 4 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 4 0 0
2016 5.2 2.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · OH · Pemberville

330 Canning fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 5 employers in Pemberville, 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 Kruger Foods Inc 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Orchard, Haines City 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oroville Plant 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE White House Fruit Farm Inc 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wholesale 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity West 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gutknecht Construction Company 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Otterbein Portage Valley 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Branch Nursery Inc 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hercules Stamping Division 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Universal Metal Products, Inc. Pemberville 39 FTE
NAT-TCR Middletown Store 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Page Hardware & Appliance Co. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Solnexus Chemical 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KTP Lexington 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jesmac, Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wisconsin Nationwide Transportation 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE OSullivan Plumbing, Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building 12 60 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, 2019, 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.