Potato chips manufacturing · Arizona

Shearer's Foods - PHX

Phoenix, AZ · ~425 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - PHX runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Shearer's Foods - PHX: 2.0 TCR = 50% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - PHX safety composite

Shearer's Foods - PHX scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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 - PHX held a steady TCR band

Shearer's Foods - PHX's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.1 in 2020 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.1 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Phoenix, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 50% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO KIRKWOOD
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~425 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KIRKWOOD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shearer's Foods - PHX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shearer's Foods - PHX averages 2.0 TCR (50% 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 - PHX TCR series: 2020=2.1 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods - PHX falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Arizona.

Shearer's Foods - PHX (425 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 - PHX
Shearer's Foods - PHX (425 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shearer's Foods - PHX 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 2.0 1.3 9 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · AZ · Phoenix

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 2,630 employers in Phoenix, AZ · 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 KIRKWOOD 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 021 Production Chillicothe 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PULASKI PLANT 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PERRY PLANT 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 21st Century Healthcare, Inc. 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE HoneywellAZ10 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE FRESH HARVEST, INC. - Arizona 427 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest 423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maricopa County 15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Children's Hospital 7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Company 6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030500 6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR SEH - St. Cloud 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Starbridge Services Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawrenceville Plant 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dirt Doctors #495 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Honeywell Aerospace 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunrise Carpentry Inc. 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HNE1 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus 425 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.