Pork rinds manufacturing · Ohio

Rudolph Foods Lima Plant

Lima, OH · ~139 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rudolph Foods Lima Plant runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pork rinds manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Rudolph Foods Lima Plant: 4.0 TCR = 99% of Pork rinds manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rudolph Foods Lima Plant safety composite

Rudolph Foods Lima Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

−0.6

2016→2019

Rudolph Foods Lima Plant injury rate improved

Rudolph Foods Lima Plant's TCR fell 0.6 from 3.8 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.8 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Lima, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 99% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #20/27
  • PHOTO Wise Foods, Inc. - B…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rudolph Foods Lima Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rudolph Foods Lima Plant averages 4.0 TCR (99% 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 Lima Plant TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=3.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Rudolph Foods Lima Plant falls in its industry

253 Pork rinds manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #20 safest of 27 Pork rinds manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Rudolph Foods Lima Plant (139 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Lima Plant
Rudolph Foods Lima Plant (139 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Rudolph Foods Lima Plant 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
2019 3.2 2.1 6 0 0
2018 5.1 1.9 7 1 0
2016 3.8 0.8 5 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 Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR El-Matador 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 040 Transportation Nottingham 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shearer's Foods - WTR 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rittman Inc dba Mull Iron 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE BNG Miracle Pet LLC 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFA FLUID - SPRINGFIELD OH 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snyder'S-Lance, Inc. 139 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 Rws La Nola Tulane 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerson Construction Company, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SuperMax Plaza Guaynabo 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #790 (Stanley, WI) 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Heavy 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champion Strattanville 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHI Mercy Hospital 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE RELCO Locomotives, Inc. 139 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: 2019, 2018, 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.