Potato chips manufacturing · Texas

Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth

Ft. Worth, TX · ~206 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth: 3.4 TCR = 82% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth safety composite

Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.13× in 2023

Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Ft. Worth, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #13/21
  • PHOTO CUCAMONGA PLANT
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~206 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CUCAMONGA PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth averages 3.4 TCR (82% 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, LLC - Ft. Worth TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=10 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 49% 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 #13 safest of 21 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Texas.

Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth (206 employees, TCR 3.4) 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, LLC - Ft. Worth
Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth (206 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth has more employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a higher 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 1.3 0.4 3 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 5 0 0
2021 10.0 7.5 13 3 1
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · TX · Ft. Worth

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 71 employers in Ft. Worth, 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 CUCAMONGA PLANT 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAN ANTONIO PLANT 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shearer's Foods - PHM 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIDDLETOWN PLANT 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE TX-NPDF-TEXAS 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oncor Transmission Operations Metro West 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dow Chemical Sabine River Op Orange TX 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beam Concrete Construction, Inc. 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6394-B2306 1,150 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2253-H4653 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Empire Roofing Inc. 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vaden's Acoustics and Drywall 242 FTE
NAT-TCR Benchmark Electronics Moorpark 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Eclipse Advantage - DOLLARCSC - Cowpens, SC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (PXH-6368) 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LiDestri Fresno 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Les Schwab-Distribution 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ozarks Electric Cooperative-Fayetteville 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE E-Coat Facility 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Tech Services, LLC 206 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. 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.