Vegetable canning · Wisconsin

Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon

Ripon, WI · ~8,349 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable canning workplace, earning a grade D.

Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon: 6.0 TCR = 182% of Vegetable canning BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon safety composite

Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−0.5

2020→2024

Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon injury rate improved

Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon's TCR fell 0.5 from 6.1 in 2020 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.1 · 2021=2.9 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Ripon, WI ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #35/43
  • PHOTO Kruger Foods Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~8,349 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kruger Foods Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon averages 6.0 TCR (182% of the Vegetable canning BLS benchmark).

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

Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon TCR series: 2020=6.1 · 2021=2.9 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon falls in its industry

330 Vegetable canning establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 43 Vegetable canning employers in Wisconsin.

Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon (8,349 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon
Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon (8,349 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon has more employees than the Vegetable canning median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 5.6 2.8 12 0 0
2023 9.4 4.4 15 0 0
2021 2.9 0.5 6 0 0
2020 6.1 3.1 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · WI · Ripon

330 Vegetable canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 30 employers in Ripon, WI · 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 Kruger Foods Inc 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pemberville Foods Facility 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR POLANER 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hausbeck 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center 7,587 FTE
STATE-SIZE FROEDTERT HOSPITAL 7,328 FTE
STATE-SIZE 900 - Corporate Offices 4,467 FTE
STATE-SIZE 900 - Corporate Office 4,231 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seneca foods Corporation - Ripon Ag 3,443 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alliance Laundry Systems - Plant 1 1,656 FTE
CITY-NEAR Condon Oil Company 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ripon Printers 288 FTE
NAT-TCR Hard Surface Finishers 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 10626 Union Station 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Con-Trol CMC Waterloo Consolidated 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pro Fab Custom Fabrication and Welding Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rexel USA, Inc 8,356 FTE
NAT-SIZE BMC - Baystate Medical Center 8,310 FTE
NAT-SIZE NYH - Weill Cornell 8,300 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6925-ORD 8,435 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, 2021, 2020. 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.