Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing · Iowa

Shearer's Foods Burlington

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Burlington, IA · ~719 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

Shearer's Foods Burlington runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Shearer's Foods Burlington: 1.7 TCR = 51% of Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods Burlington safety composite

Shearer's Foods Burlington scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−2.4

2016→2023

Shearer's Foods Burlington injury rate improved

Shearer's Foods Burlington's TCR fell 2.4 from 2.7 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2019=2.3 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

DART 0.4 DART
RANK #2/4
PHOTO Elizabeth's Foods Co
BOOK 5y book
INJ 63 inj
SIZE ~719 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elizabeth's Foods Co (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.7

What this shows Shearer's Foods Burlington averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Shearer's Foods Burlington TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2019=2.3 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Shearer's Foods Burlington falls in its industry

166 Bakery products, dry (e.g., bi establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Bakery products, dry (e.g., bi employers in Iowa.

Shearer's Foods Burlington (719 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Shearer's Foods Burlington has more employees than the Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, co 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
2023	0.4	0.4	3	0	0
2022	1.2	1.0	9	0	0
2021	1.8	1.5	10	2	0
2019	2.3	1.6	17	0	0
2016	2.7	1.0	24	0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311821 · IA · Burlington

166 Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Elizabeth's Foods Co	COMPTON, CA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Atlanta Bakery	ATLANTA, GA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Campbell's Snacks	CHARLOTTE, NC	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cincinnati Manufacturing Facility - KNA	CINCINNATI, OH	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Western Home Communities	CEDAR FALLS	721 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MCGRATH AUTOMOTIVE GROUP	CEDAR RAPIDS	717 FTE
STATE-SIZE	City of Iowa City	IOWA CITY	721 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rockwell Collins - Coralville	CORALVILLE	725 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Shearer's Foods - BUR	Burlington	727 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Federal-Mogul Ignition Company Burlington Iowa Plant	Burlington	576 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CNH_Burlington	Burlington	576 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CNH Industrial - Burlington	Burlington	528 FTE
NAT-TCR	Patterson Dc	Patterson, CA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	HandyTube Corporation	Camden, DE	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Department of Human Resources	Los Angeles, CA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fox Factory Inc.	Scotts Valley, CA	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Summit Physician Services	Chambersburg, PA	719 FTE
NAT-SIZE	City Hall	Bartlett, TN	719 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pasco Processing LLC	Pasco, WA	719 FTE
NAT-SIZE	056745-San Bernardino Ca P&Dc	San Bernardino, CA	719 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, 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.