Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing · Indiana

Pretzels

Bluffton, IN · ~311 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pretzels runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Pretzels: 7.8 TCR = 191% of Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pretzels safety composite

Pretzels scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

−1.7

2016→2018

Pretzels injury rate improved

Pretzels's TCR fell 1.7 from 8.9 in 2016 to 7.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.9 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Bluffton, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 191% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #14/14
  • PHOTO Rudolph Foods Compan…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 72 inj
  • SIZE ~311 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rudolph Foods Company Inc Lima Pellet (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pretzels in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pretzels averages 7.8 TCR (191% of the Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pretzels TCR series: 2016=8.9 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=7.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Pretzels falls in its industry

253 Pretzels (except soft) manufac establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 14 Pretzels (except soft) manufac employers in Indiana.

Pretzels (311 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pretzels
Pretzels (311 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Pretzels has more employees than the Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 Fatalities
2018 7.2 6.5 21 0 0
2017 7.5 6.5 21 1 0
2016 8.9 7.5 30 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · IN · Bluffton

253 Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 38 employers in Bluffton, IN · 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 Rudolph Foods Company Inc Lima Pellet 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snyders-Lance, Inc 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crispy Maid 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR P15 - Condor 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Utilities 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE K2 Industrial Services 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koetter Woodworking Inc 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milestone AV Techonologies - DaLite Warsaw 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR K181-D181 1,022 FTE
CITY-NEAR 181-DC181 964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hersheys Salty Snacks 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bluffton Motor Works, LLC 358 FTE
NAT-TCR PS Chattanooga 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR USF Manassas VA 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fulton 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Manheim Auto Auction 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rai Crew Dca 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE LESMMOAH 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE LGA - Airport United Airlines Offices 311 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: 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.