Potato chips manufacturing · Ohio

Shearer's Foods - Corporate

Masillon, OH · ~222 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - Corporate runs at 4% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Shearer's Foods - Corporate: 0.2 TCR = 4% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - Corporate safety composite

Shearer's Foods - Corporate scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

85/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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

2016→2023

Shearer's Foods - Corporate injury rate improved

Shearer's Foods - Corporate's TCR fell 0.6 from 0.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.5 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 4% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/27
  • PHOTO Frito Lay North Amer…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frito Lay North America (R&D) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Shearer's Foods - Corporate in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shearer's Foods - Corporate averages 0.2 TCR (4% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shearer's Foods - Corporate TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods - Corporate falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 27 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Shearer's Foods - Corporate (222 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Shearer's Foods - Corporate
Shearer's Foods - Corporate (222 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shearer's Foods - Corporate 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · OH · Masillon

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 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 Frito Lay North America (R&D) 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson Manufacturing Facility - KNA 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TreeHouse Foods Lancaster, PA 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triland Foods, Inc. 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wagner Industrial Electric 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nestle LJ Minor 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCL Design Strongsville 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amcor Fremont Ohio 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Massillon Office 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Marion Reservation Center 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR DuPont Experimental Station 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR BayView Industries of Green Bay Inc. 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandSafway, LLC - Baton Rouge Branch 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big West Oil Refinery 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE FTWN One Summit Square 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Grand Healthcare 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engineered Materials : Woodridge 222 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.

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

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