Potato chips manufacturing · Ohio

Shearer's Foods - BRW

Name: Shearer's Foods - BRW Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Brewster, OH · ~325 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - BRW runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Shearer's Foods - BRW: 2.5 TCR = 61% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - BRW safety composite

Shearer's Foods - BRW scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% 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).

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

2020→2024

Shearer's Foods - BRW injury rate improved

Shearer's Foods - BRW's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.8 in 2020 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.8 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 61% of ind

DART 0.8 DART
RANK #10/27
PHOTO Herr Foods - 077 Con…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~325 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Herr Foods - 077 Concordville PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.5
Herr Foods - 0

2.5
Festida Foods

2.5
Snyder's-Lance

2.5
Ballreich Food

2.5

What this shows Shearer's Foods - BRW averages 2.5 TCR (61% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Shearer's Foods - BRW TCR series: 2020=2.8 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods - BRW falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 66% 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 #10 safest of 27 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Shearer's Foods - BRW (325 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shearer's Foods - BRW 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	Fatalities
2024	2.2	0.8	4	4	0
2020	2.8	2.3	11	0	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	Herr Foods - 077 Concordville PA	GLEN MILLS, PA	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Festida Foods	GRAND RAPIDS, MI	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	GOODYEAR, AZ	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ballreich Foods, LLC	TIFFIN, OH	2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Great Day Improvements	BEDFORD HEIGHTS	325 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Advanced Composites Inc. Ohio	SIDNEY	325 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TS Tech TriMold	CIRCLEVILLE	325 FTE
STATE-SIZE	014-00984	TROY	325 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Shearer's Foods - Brewster	Brewster	336 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Brewster, Ohio	Brewster	207 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Brewster Parke	Brewster	118 FTE
NAT-TCR	Automann - IL	New Lenox, IL	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	D&B Tile and Related Enterprises, Inc.	Sunrise, FL	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 1137	Parkland, FL	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 1218	Harvest, AL	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Dfa Fluid - Dallas Tx	Dallas, TX	325 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Industrial Specialty Services USA LLC - Corporate	Deer Park, TX	325 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Post Acute Registry	Los Angeles, CA	325 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Weiler Corporation	Cresco, PA	325 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, 2020. 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.