Potato chips manufacturing · Ohio

Shearer's Foods - Brewster

Name: Shearer's Foods - Brewster Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Brewster, OH · ~336 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.7
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - Brewster runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Shearer's Foods - Brewster: 2.7 TCR = 65% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - Brewster safety composite

Shearer's Foods - Brewster scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−1.0

2016→2023

Shearer's Foods - Brewster injury rate improved

Shearer's Foods - Brewster's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.3 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=2.9 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 65% of ind

DART 0.4 DART
RANK #12/27
PHOTO Terra Chips
BOOK 6y book
INJ 62 inj
SIZE ~336 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Terra Chips (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.7
Terra Chips

2.7
ABERDEEN LOCAT

2.7
TH Foods, Inc.

2.7
Treehouse Priv

2.6

What this shows Shearer's Foods - Brewster averages 2.7 TCR (65% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Shearer's Foods - Brewster TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=2.9 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods - Brewster falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 27 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Shearer's Foods - Brewster (336 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shearer's Foods - Brewster has more employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a lower 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
2023	1.3	0.4	6	0
2022	1.8	1.3	7	0
2021	2.7	1.7	11	0
2019	2.9	1.4	12	0
2018	5.1	3.1	17	6
2016	2.3	1.0	9	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · OH · Brewster

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 4 employers in Brewster, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Terra Chips	MOONACHIE, NJ	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ABERDEEN LOCATION	ABERDEEN, MD	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	TH Foods, Inc. - Caledonia, IL	CALEDONIA, IL	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Treehouse Private Brands Inc	LANCASTER, PA	2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Haas Door Company Wauseon	WAUSEON	336 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Arconic B and C Research (06301)	BARBERTON	336 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Services Peebles OH	PEEBLES	336 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hebron	HEBRON	336 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Shearer's Foods - BRW	Brewster	325 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Brewster, Ohio	Brewster	207 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Brewster Parke	Brewster	118 FTE
NAT-TCR	8051 U of L Jewish Frazier Hospital	Louisville, KY	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	National Management Resources Lyon College	Batesville, AR	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sensient Flavors Harbor Beach	Harbor Beach, MI	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	55358 Stanford	Redwood City, CA	2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	SKF USA Inc. - Lansdale Remote	Lansdale, PA	336 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pratt Regional Medical Center	Pratt, KS	336 FTE
NAT-SIZE	55440 MetroAccess	Capital Heights, MD	336 FTE
NAT-SIZE	SEA Sea-Tac Airport	Seattle, WA	336 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, 2019, 2018, 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.