Frozen Cakes, Pies, and Other Pastries Manufacturing · Vermont

Rhino Foods Plant

Burlington, VT · ~179 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rhino Foods Plant runs at 294% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Frozen Cakes, Pies, and Other Pastries Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Rhino Foods Plant: 9.7 TCR = 294% of Frozen Cakes, Pies, and Other Pastries Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rhino Foods Plant safety composite

Rhino Foods Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−0.4

2017→2024

Rhino Foods Plant injury rate improved

Rhino Foods Plant's TCR fell 0.4 from 6.6 in 2017 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 22.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.6 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=22.4 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=14.0 · 2022=6.0 · 2023=8.4 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311813 · Burlington, VT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 294% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK P9
  • PHOTO Outer Aisle Gourmet
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 120 inj
  • SIZE ~179 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Outer Aisle Gourmet (0.3 TCR gap)

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Rhino Foods Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rhino Foods Plant averages 9.7 TCR (294% of the Frozen Cakes, Pies, and Other Pastries Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rhino Foods Plant TCR series: 2017=6.6 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=22.4 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=14 · 2022=6 · 2023=8.4 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Rhino Foods Plant falls in its industry

94 Frozen Cakes, Pies, and Other establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Rhino Foods Plant (179 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 220 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rhino Foods Plant
Rhino Foods Plant (179 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 220 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Rhino Foods Plant has fewer employees than the Frozen Cakes, Pies, and Other Pastries M median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 6.3 4.4 9 1 0
2023 8.4 6.5 12 1 0
2022 6.0 4.8 9 1 0
2021 14.0 11.1 24 0 0
2020 5.1 4.6 9 1 0
2019 22.4 17.8 36 3 0
2018 8.7 7.4 13 0 0
2017 6.6 4.6 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311813 · VT · Burlington

94 Frozen Cakes, Pies, and Other Pastries Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 96 employers in Burlington, VT · 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 Outer Aisle Gourmet 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Bakery Products 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR RFDC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orange Bakery, Inc. 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hunger Mountain Cooperative, Inc. 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3306 - South Burlington 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynapower Company 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foodservice Burlington - 0567 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard Center Inc 1,483 FTE
CITY-NEAR 102 South Winooski 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1138 Pine 452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burton Corporation 414 FTE
NAT-TCR Mnowa - Owatonna 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Flvro - Vero Beach 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Nysuf - Suffolk 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Commercial Asphalt 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alternatives, Inc. 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mimus - Muskegon 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE William F. Green State Veterans Home 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisiana Sugar Refining, LLC 179 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. 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.