Potato chips manufacturing · Minnesota

Shearer's Foods - PHM

Perham, MN · ~449 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - PHM 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 - PHM: 3.4 TCR = 82% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - PHM safety composite

Shearer's Foods - PHM scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Shearer's Foods - PHM: 1.5 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

Shearer's Foods - PHM's TCR rose 1.9 from 1.5 in 2020 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Perham, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 82% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK P50
  • PHOTO Shearer's Foods, LLC…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~449 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shearer's Foods - PHM in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shearer's Foods - PHM 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 - PHM TCR series: 2020=1.5 · 2022=5.2 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods - PHM falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Shearer's Foods - PHM (449 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 - PHM
Shearer's Foods - PHM (449 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 - PHM 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 3.4 3.2 14 0 0
2022 5.2 3.6 17 3 0
2020 1.5 1.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · MN · Perham

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 29 employers in Perham, MN · 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 Shearer's Foods, LLC - Ft. Worth 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIDDLETOWN PLANT 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barrel o'Fun Snack Foods Co. East LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CUCAMONGA PLANT 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 610 AFTON ALPS 449 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPP - Minneapolis 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE BTD Manufacturing Detroit Lakes 448 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foodservice Rogers - 0557 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3061_5905 552 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barrel O'Fun SNack Foods Co., LLC 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perham Health 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kenny's Candy and Confections 326 FTE
NAT-TCR BMSC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 269-NiSource-Washington PA-Service 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SA Recycling, Birmingham 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0181 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lousiana Integrated Polyethylene JV, LLC 449 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rausch Coleman Development Group Inc. 449 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monroe Health Services, Inc 449 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shannondell 449 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, 2022, 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.