Pastes, fruit and vegetable, canning · Indiana

Red Gold Inc. - Elwood

Elwood, IN · ~407 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Red Gold Inc. - Elwood runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pastes, fruit and vegetable, canning workplace, earning a grade C.

Red Gold Inc. - Elwood: 2.8 TCR = 84% of Pastes, fruit and vegetable, canning BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Red Gold Inc. - Elwood safety composite

Red Gold Inc. - Elwood scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2016→2024

Red Gold Inc. - Elwood injury rate improved

Red Gold Inc. - Elwood's TCR fell 1.8 from 4.0 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.0 · 2017=3.0 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Elwood, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Havre de Grace, MD F…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 103 inj
  • SIZE ~407 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Havre de Grace, MD Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Red Gold Inc. - Elwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Red Gold Inc. - Elwood averages 2.8 TCR (84% of the Pastes, fruit and vegetable, canning BLS benchmark).

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

Red Gold Inc. - Elwood TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=3 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Red Gold Inc. - Elwood falls in its industry

330 Pastes, fruit and vegetable, c establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Pastes, fruit and vegetable, c employers in Indiana.

Red Gold Inc. - Elwood (407 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Red Gold Inc. - Elwood
Red Gold Inc. - Elwood (407 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Red Gold Inc. - Elwood has more employees than the Pastes, fruit and vegetable, canning median and a lower 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 2.3 1.1 10 0 0
2023 2.9 1.8 13 0 0
2022 2.1 1.4 9 0 0
2021 2.6 1.4 11 0 0
2020 2.4 1.9 10 0 0
2019 1.9 1.0 8 0 0
2018 3.5 2.0 14 0 0
2017 3.0 2.5 12 0 0
2016 4.0 2.3 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · IN · Elwood

330 Pastes, fruit and vegetable, canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 14 employers in Elwood, 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 Havre de Grace, MD Facility 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ripon Pickle Co., Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CCNA-Paw Paw 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michigan Food Processors 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE K052-M001 406 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 870 406 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carmel Clay Board of Parks and Recreation 406 FTE
STATE-SIZE HRT Plymouth 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR ELSA LLC 658 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Gold - Corporate 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR RG Transport 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4459_9673 113 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Paul 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 027-BGR 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #0218 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Dairy Transport-Cabool 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valliant Mill 407 FTE
NAT-SIZE SGS & Co Global Headquarters 407 FTE
NAT-SIZE APG 407 FTE
NAT-SIZE Takeda: Bannockburn 407 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.