Cookies manufacturing · Iowa

Shearer's Foods - BUR

Burlington, IA · ~727 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - BUR runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cookies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Shearer's Foods - BUR: 1.3 TCR = 38% of Cookies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - BUR safety composite

Shearer's Foods - BUR scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−1.2

2020→2024

Shearer's Foods - BUR injury rate improved

Shearer's Foods - BUR's TCR fell 1.2 from 1.9 in 2020 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.9 · 2024=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311821 · Burlington, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Kansas City Manufact…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~727 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kansas City Manufacturing Facility - KNA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shearer's Foods - BUR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shearer's Foods - BUR averages 1.3 TCR (38% of the Cookies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shearer's Foods - BUR TCR series: 2020=1.9 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Shearer's Foods - BUR falls in its industry

166 Cookies manufacturing establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Cookies manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Shearer's Foods - BUR (727 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Shearer's Foods - BUR
Shearer's Foods - BUR (727 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Shearer's Foods - BUR has more employees than the Cookies manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.7 0.5 5 0 0
2020 1.9 1.5 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311821 · IA · Burlington

166 Cookies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 68 employers in Burlington, IA · 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 Kansas City Manufacturing Facility - KNA 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florence Manufacturing Facility 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cary Manufacturing Facility 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pepperidge Farms, Denver 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE WATERLOO IA 727 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Collins - Coralville 725 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ameristar Casino and Hotel Council Bluffs 725 FTE
STATE-SIZE Core-Mark Iowa 732 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods Burlington 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Ignition Company Burlington Iowa Plant 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR CNH_Burlington 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR CNH Industrial - Burlington 528 FTE
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 178 Harrisburg 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Resonetics Nashua 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson Health Tech Trading Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 10219 Henderson 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE UPMC Carlisle 727 FTE
NAT-SIZE SubCom Cable Systems, LLC 727 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mettler Toledo Rainin, LLC 727 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sub-Zero Goodyear 727 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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