Potato chips manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Shearer's Foods - WTR

Waterford, PA · ~199 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - WTR runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Shearer's Foods - WTR: 4.0 TCR = 97% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - WTR safety composite

Shearer's Foods - WTR scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−0.7

2020→2024

Shearer's Foods - WTR injury rate improved

Shearer's Foods - WTR's TCR fell 0.7 from 4.3 in 2020 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.3 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Waterford, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 97% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #24/50
  • PHOTO Shearer's Foods - Mi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~199 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shearer's Foods - Millennium (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shearer's Foods - WTR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shearer's Foods - WTR averages 4.0 TCR (97% 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 - WTR TCR series: 2020=4.3 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods - WTR falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 50 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Shearer's Foods - WTR (199 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 - WTR
Shearer's Foods - WTR (199 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shearer's Foods - WTR 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 3.6 2.8 8 1 0
2020 4.3 3.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · PA · Waterford

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 6 employers in Waterford, PA · 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 - Millennium 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 040 Transportation Nottingham 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR El-Matador 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 074 Claysburg PA 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 103671 - Hill Top Energy Center 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Myerstown 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mersen USA St Marys 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Truck Accessories Group, LLC dba Leer Group East (Fiberglass plant) 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barrel o'Fun Snack Foods Co. East LLC 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR RGS Products Inc 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR WATERFORD 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tops 667 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0032 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0797 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1210 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1352 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kansas City 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0126 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0497 199 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.