Tortilla chips manufacturing · Arkansas

Shearer's Foods - Newport

Newport, AR · ~412 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - Newport runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Tortilla chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Shearer's Foods - Newport: 3.0 TCR = 74% of Tortilla chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - Newport safety composite

Shearer's Foods - Newport scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

Shearer's Foods - Newport held a steady TCR band

Shearer's Foods - Newport's TCR held near 0.0 from 3.6 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=1.8 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Newport, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 74% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK P55
  • PHOTO CASA GRANDE PLANT
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 59 inj
  • SIZE ~412 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CASA GRANDE PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shearer's Foods - Newport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shearer's Foods - Newport averages 3.0 TCR (74% of the Tortilla chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shearer's Foods - Newport TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=1.8 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=3.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods - Newport falls in its industry

253 Tortilla chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Shearer's Foods - Newport (412 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 - Newport
Shearer's Foods - Newport (412 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shearer's Foods - Newport has more employees than the Tortilla 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 3.5 1.2 7 5 0
2022 3.7 1.1 9 5 0
2021 3.3 1.9 10 2 0
2019 1.8 0.5 7 0 0
2018 2.2 1.9 9 0 0
2016 3.6 2.9 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · AR · Newport

253 Tortilla chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 23 employers in Newport, AR · 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 CASA GRANDE PLANT 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DENVER PLANT 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LIBERTY PLANT 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snyder's Lance Kettle Ct. 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1105 412 FTE
STATE-SIZE AR184 Fort Smith (Dixie) 410 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frick 410 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nidec Motor Corporation - Mena 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - NPT 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arkansas Steel Associates, LLC 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Health Harris Medical Center 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR 18 209 FTE
NAT-TCR Bossier City Dirt Cheap 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 5035 WilkesBarre General Hospital 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CH Coakley 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Electrical Distributors (Pc1152) 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 235 Manchester Ct 412 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crenlo Engineered Cabs 412 FTE
NAT-SIZE Associated Food Stores Corporate Office 412 FTE
NAT-SIZE rotschy 412 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.