Pork rinds manufacturing · Ohio

Rudolph Foods Company Lima

Lima, OH · ~159 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rudolph Foods Company Lima runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pork rinds manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Rudolph Foods Company Lima: 5.2 TCR = 126% of Pork rinds manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rudolph Foods Company Lima safety composite

Rudolph Foods Company Lima scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−0.5

2023→2024

Rudolph Foods Company Lima injury rate improved

Rudolph Foods Company Lima's TCR fell 0.5 from 5.4 in 2023 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.4 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Lima, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #22/27
  • PHOTO Ara Food Corp
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ara Food Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rudolph Foods Company Lima in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rudolph Foods Company Lima averages 5.2 TCR (126% of the Pork rinds manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rudolph Foods Company Lima TCR series: 2023=5.4 · 2024=5 · BLS 4.1

Where Rudolph Foods Company Lima falls in its industry

253 Pork rinds manufacturing establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 27 Pork rinds manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Rudolph Foods Company Lima (159 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Rudolph Foods Company Lima
Rudolph Foods Company Lima (159 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Rudolph Foods Company Lima has fewer employees than the Pork rinds 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
2024 5.0 4.4 8 1 0
2023 5.4 3.8 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · OH · Lima

253 Pork rinds manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 243 employers in Lima, OH · 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 Ara Food Corp 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snak King - Freeport 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Rapids 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 38341 - BROOK HOLLOW PLANT 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE USA OH Dublin Shamrock 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Comms Grove City - 0220-OHGR1 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Made Glass Systems 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Tool & Die SHARON CENTER 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health St Ritas Medical Center 2,540 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Rita's Medical Center 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Ritas Medical Center 2,445 FTE
CITY-NEAR LIMA ENGINE 1,457 FTE
NAT-TCR Valdosta Office 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR North Massapequa 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tardif'S American Brasserie 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mission Point of Elmwood 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of San Marino 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Sharp Chula Vista Med Hskp 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dunn Roadbuilders 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barton Supply - Aurora 159 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. 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.