Canning fruits and vegetables · Wisconsin

Seneca Foods Ripon

Ripon, WI · ~133 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Seneca Foods Ripon runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Canning fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade D.

Seneca Foods Ripon: 5.3 TCR = 160% of Canning fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seneca Foods Ripon safety composite

Seneca Foods Ripon scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

−6.3

2016→2019

Seneca Foods Ripon injury rate improved

Seneca Foods Ripon's TCR fell 6.3 from 7.8 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 160% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #31/43
  • PHOTO Del Monte Foods Fiel…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Del Monte Foods Fields Dep #206 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Seneca Foods Ripon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seneca Foods Ripon averages 5.3 TCR (160% of the Canning fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Seneca Foods Ripon TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Seneca Foods Ripon falls in its industry

330 Canning fruits and vegetables establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #31 safest of 43 Canning fruits and vegetables employers in Wisconsin.

Seneca Foods Ripon (133 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Seneca Foods Ripon
Seneca Foods Ripon (133 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Seneca Foods Ripon has more employees than the Canning fruits and vegetables 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
2019 1.5 1.0 3 0 0
2018 5.7 3.3 12 0 0
2017 6.2 4.8 13 0 0
2016 7.8 4.8 13 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · WI · Ripon

330 Canning fruits and vegetables 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 Del Monte Foods Fields Dep #206 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2453-00060248-60248 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Violet Packing 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Energy Center 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Asphalt, Inc. - Green Bay 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Construction, Inc-WI-Lomira 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 1 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seneca Foods Corporation- Ripon 8,349 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
NAT-TCR Max & Erma's Maumee 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Enbridge St. Lawrence Gas - Massena 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Clearwater Valley Hospital & Clinics 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Barnes & Dodge, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE IT 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harbor Place at Port St. Lucie 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE 633 - Sarasota 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pentair Conroe 133 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, 2017, 2016. 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.