Potato chips manufacturing · Arkansas

Shearer's Foods - NPT

Newport, AR · ~334 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - NPT runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Shearer's Foods - NPT: 1.3 TCR = 31% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - NPT safety composite

Shearer's Foods - NPT scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 93% 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

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

−2.6

2020→2024

Shearer's Foods - NPT injury rate improved

Shearer's Foods - NPT's TCR fell 2.6 from 2.6 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P90
  • PHOTO Herr Foods - 063 Ham…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~334 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Herr Foods - 063 Hampton VA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shearer's Foods - NPT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shearer's Foods - NPT averages 1.3 TCR (31% 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 - NPT TCR series: 2020=2.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods - NPT falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Shearer's Foods - NPT (334 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 - NPT
Shearer's Foods - NPT (334 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shearer's Foods - NPT 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.6 1.0 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · AR · Newport

253 Potato 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 Herr Foods - 063 Hampton VA 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 066 Wilkes Barre PA 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DALLAS SERVICE CENTER 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 069 Oakland NJ 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 9149 334 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2nd Street, P-19719 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bekaert Rogers 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE BERRYHS 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - Newport 412 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 Senior Metal Bellows 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 412 Oelwein 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nicewood Enterprises, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Berry Global - BOKY 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mail Management Services, INC 334 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creative Health Solutions 334 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1095 - Minneapolis NE 334 FTE
NAT-SIZE 119 - W Main St Oshtemo Twp 334 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.

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

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