Potato chips manufacturing · Ohio

Shearer's Foods - MIL

Massillon, OH · ~526 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - MIL runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Shearer's Foods - MIL: 3.8 TCR = 92% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - MIL safety composite

Shearer's Foods - MIL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−2.1

2020→2024

Shearer's Foods - MIL injury rate improved

Shearer's Foods - MIL's TCR fell 2.1 from 4.8 in 2020 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.8 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #17/27
  • PHOTO CANTON LOCATION
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~526 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CANTON LOCATION (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shearer's Foods - MIL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shearer's Foods - MIL averages 3.8 TCR (92% 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 - MIL TCR series: 2020=4.8 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods - MIL falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #17 safest of 27 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Shearer's Foods - MIL (526 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 - MIL
Shearer's Foods - MIL (526 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shearer's Foods - MIL 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
2024 2.7 2.2 15 0 0
2020 4.8 2.9 23 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · OH · Massillon

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 110 employers in Massillon, OH · 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 CANTON LOCATION 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rudolph Foods Company New Hebron 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dot's Goodyear 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barrel O'Fun Snack Foods Southwest 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Perrysville 526 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tractor Supply Company Distribution Center 0597 526 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sofidel - Circleville 525 FTE
STATE-SIZE AZEK Building Products 527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresh Mark Massillon 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest Health Services, Inc. 702 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kendall House Incorporated 586 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterilite Corporation OHO 546 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0450 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 138 Pleasant Hill 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR National Distribution Centers LLC-951 AVIATION PARKWAY 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0733 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Evapco Midwest 526 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheltering Arms Institute 526 FTE
NAT-SIZE Physicians East, P.A.- Corporate 526 FTE
NAT-SIZE Koch Foods Debone 526 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.