Potato chips manufacturing · Indiana

Saratoga Potato Chips

Fort Wayne, IN · ~328 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Saratoga Potato Chips runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Saratoga Potato Chips: 3.9 TCR = 94% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saratoga Potato Chips safety composite

Saratoga Potato Chips scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 47% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Saratoga Potato Chips: 2.3 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2023

Saratoga Potato Chips's TCR rose 4.5 from 2.3 in 2019 to 6.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Fort Wayne, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 94% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO WILLIAMSPORT PLANT
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~328 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WILLIAMSPORT PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saratoga Potato Chips in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saratoga Potato Chips averages 3.9 TCR (94% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Saratoga Potato Chips TCR series: 2019=2.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=6.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Saratoga Potato Chips falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Indiana.

Saratoga Potato Chips (328 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Saratoga Potato Chips
Saratoga Potato Chips (328 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Saratoga Potato Chips has more employees than the Potato chips 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
2023 6.7 2.0 20 0 1
2022 6.2 1.0 16 2 0
2021 4.1 2.6 11 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · IN · Fort Wayne

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, 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 WILLIAMSPORT PLANT 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barrel O'Fun Snack Foods Southwest 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rudolph Foods Company New Hebron 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 074 Claysburg PA 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Diversity Vuteq 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE BWX Technologies 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE Autoneum North America Jeffersonvile 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE EVVLIN95 - AT&T Mobility Services LLC 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR Cmu Resnik 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ice-O-Matic 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cox Avenue 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR W.F. North, Inc., dba Brent Brown Toyota 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE BayCare Urgent Care, LLC (2313) 328 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davis County Sheriffs and Corrections Complex 328 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lochridge-Priest, Inc. 328 FTE
NAT-SIZE CP&Y Inc. 328 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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