Potato chips manufacturing · Ohio

Shearer's Foods - Stark

Massillon, OH · ~263 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - Stark runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Shearer's Foods - Stark: 2.4 TCR = 59% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - Stark safety composite

Shearer's Foods - Stark scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−1.3

2020→2024

Shearer's Foods - Stark injury rate improved

Shearer's Foods - Stark's TCR fell 1.3 from 3.1 in 2020 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.1 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #8/27
  • PHOTO Snyder's Lance Inc. …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~263 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Snyder's Lance Inc. - Beloit (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shearer's Foods - Stark in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shearer's Foods - Stark averages 2.4 TCR (59% 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 - Stark TCR series: 2020=3.1 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods - Stark falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 70% 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 #8 safest of 27 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Shearer's Foods - Stark (263 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 - Stark
Shearer's Foods - Stark (263 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shearer's Foods - Stark 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 1.7 0.6 6 0 0
2020 3.1 1.8 5 0 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 Snyder's Lance Inc. - Beloit 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wise Foods, Inc. - Fort Worth TX 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR KERN PLANT 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Legacy Bake House 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE RLA Investments Inc 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE Webster Industries 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE Field Sales Central 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3812 263 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 Bristol-Myers Squibb Holdings Pharma Ltd. Liability Company 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Manley Performance Products 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR KJ's Market #603 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Peterson Machinery Longview 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 12700 - Philadelphia 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ball Beverage Pkg 159 Glendale 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10225 Pacific Coast Highway 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE AbilityFirst Fair Oaks Site 263 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.