Food Manufacturing · Kansas

Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.

Topeka, KS · ~423 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.: 4.8 TCR = 144% of Food Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. safety composite

Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

−1.2

2017→2024

Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. injury rate improved

Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.2 from 4.3 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.3 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Topeka, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 144% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Praters Foods
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~423 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Praters Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. averages 4.8 TCR (144% of the Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. TCR series: 2017=4.3 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. falls in its industry

274 Food Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Food Manufacturing employers in Kansas.

Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. (423 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.
Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. (423 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. has more employees than the Food Manufacturing median and a higher 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 3.1 2.3 15 0 0
2023 6.8 5.5 42 1 0
2017 4.3 3.8 26 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · KS · Topeka

274 Food Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, KS · 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 Praters Foods 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richelieu Foods Beaver Dam 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Twin Marquis Brooklyn 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills - Wellston 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Wichita, KS 423 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4475 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hutchinson Plant 420 FTE
STATE-SIZE SciptPro USA 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stormont Vail Health - Hospital 2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire Rubber Company 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Topeka 1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus 1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR BK Lighting Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Porter Logistics LTD 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1832 Swn8 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Quadd Building Systems 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Channell Commercial Corporation 423 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hosparus Health Louisville - Main 423 FTE
NAT-SIZE RECARO Aircraft Seating LLC 423 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monogram Meat Snacks LLC 423 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, 2017. 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.