Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing · California

Popcornopolis

Vernon, CA · ~241 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Popcornopolis runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Popcornopolis: 3.9 TCR = 92% of Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Popcornopolis safety composite

Popcornopolis scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2020→2021

Popcornopolis injury rate improved

Popcornopolis's TCR fell 3.5 from 5.6 in 2020 to 2.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.6 · 2021=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Vernon, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Parker Products LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~241 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Parker Products LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Popcornopolis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Popcornopolis averages 3.9 TCR (92% of the Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Popcornopolis TCR series: 2020=5.6 · 2021=2.1 · BLS 4.2

Where Popcornopolis falls in its industry

123 Popcorn, candy covered popped, establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Popcorn, candy covered popped, employers in California.

Popcornopolis (241 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Popcornopolis
Popcornopolis (241 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Popcornopolis has more employees than the Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufactu median and a higher 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
2021 2.1 2.1 3 0 0
2020 5.6 5.2 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · CA · Vernon

123 Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 146 employers in Vernon, CA · 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 Parker Products LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Hershey Company - Lancaster Facility 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jelly Belly Candy Company 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Humboldt TN 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mainas Farms LLC 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fowler Packing Field 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Calpine Energy Solutions 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE OHL USA INC- CA ALL locations 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA 1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS) 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Vernon 984 FTE
NAT-TCR West Fraser - Blackshear 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley Ward, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Camarero Race Trak Corporation 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Doubletree Cleveland Westlake 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE SKC-GA 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ecolab 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE 338550-Trenton Po 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ply Gem Industries, Inc. 241 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, 2020. 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.