Potato chips manufacturing · Texas

Shearer's Foods - LBB

Lubbock, TX · ~205 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - LBB runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Shearer's Foods - LBB: 2.4 TCR = 58% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - LBB safety composite

Shearer's Foods - LBB scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−2.5

2020→2024

Shearer's Foods - LBB injury rate improved

Shearer's Foods - LBB's TCR fell 2.5 from 3.6 in 2020 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.6 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Lubbock, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 58% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #8/21
  • PHOTO CHARLOTTE PLANT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~205 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CHARLOTTE PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shearer's Foods - LBB in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shearer's Foods - LBB averages 2.4 TCR (58% 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 - LBB TCR series: 2020=3.6 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods - LBB falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 21 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Texas.

Shearer's Foods - LBB (205 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 - LBB
Shearer's Foods - LBB (205 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shearer's Foods - LBB 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2020 3.6 3.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · TX · Lubbock

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 482 employers in Lubbock, TX · 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 CHARLOTTE PLANT 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shearer's Foods - Stark 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snyder's Lance Inc. - Beloit 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wise Foods, Inc. - Fort Worth TX 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Houston Office 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7421 - Ineos Chcolate Bayou 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.E. Rice Construction Company, Inc. 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tarsco Construction Corporation 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR A01 Covenant Medical Center 3,178 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2004-20049000 2,269 FTE
CITY-NEAR FALCON HEALTHCARE INC DBA INTERIM HEALTHCARE 2,046 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covenant Health System 1,761 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0279 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 114 Dubuque 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR S06617 - WI Germantown MRF 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Benton Harbor, MI 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE BRIA of Forest Edge 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Voltage Multipliers, Inc. 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0618 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0669 205 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.