Canned nuts manufacturing · Virginia

Planters Peanuts

Suffolk, VA · ~365 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Planters Peanuts runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Canned nuts manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Planters Peanuts: 1.5 TCR = 37% of Canned nuts manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Planters Peanuts safety composite

Planters Peanuts scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

Planters Peanuts: 0.9 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2024

Planters Peanuts's TCR rose 2.0 from 0.9 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311911 · Suffolk, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 37% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Universal Blanchers,…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~365 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Universal Blanchers, dba Olam Edible Nuts Sylvester Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Planters Peanuts in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Planters Peanuts averages 1.5 TCR (37% of the Canned nuts manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Planters Peanuts TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=0.3 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=1.7 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=3 · BLS 4.1

Where Planters Peanuts falls in its industry

150 Canned nuts manufacturing establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Canned nuts manufacturing employers in Virginia.

Planters Peanuts (365 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Planters Peanuts
Planters Peanuts (365 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Planters Peanuts has more employees than the Canned nuts manufacturing 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
2024 3.0 1.8 8 2 0
2023 2.5 1.8 5 2 0
2019 1.7 1.7 6 0 0
2018 0.8 0.8 3 0 0
2017 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.9 0.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311911 · VA · Suffolk

150 Canned nuts manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 161 employers in Suffolk, VA · 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 Universal Blanchers, dba Olam Edible Nuts Sylvester Facility 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunGold Horace 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Planters - Fort Smith 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peanut Butter 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau 365 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bechtel/Stonewall 364 FTE
STATE-SIZE DTFHopewell 366 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winchester Plant 364 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF3 3,196 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3841 - UDC-Suffolk 1,700 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3841 - Suffolk UDC 1,478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Obici Hospital 1,384 FTE
NAT-TCR Grand Prairie 10049 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR J & B Mechanical, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chesterton - Groveland 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Line Construction 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Celanese LTD, Clear Lake 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Excelsior Farming, LLC 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Civil Constructors LLC 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casbe - San Bernardino 365 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.