Potato chips manufacturing · Oregon

Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston

Hermiston, OR · ~343 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston: 6.1 TCR = 149% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston safety composite

Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston: 3.7 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2022

Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston's TCR rose 6.3 from 3.7 in 2016 to 9.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Hermiston, OR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 149% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK P19
  • PHOTO Kitchen Cooked - Far…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~343 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kitchen Cooked - Farmington (0.0 TCR gap)

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Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston averages 6.1 TCR (149% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=5.7 · 2022=9.9 · BLS 4.1

Where Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston (343 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston
Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston (343 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Snack Alliance, Inc. - Shearer's Foods - Hermiston 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
2022 9.9 6.6 3 0 0
2019 5.7 4.7 18 0 0
2018 5.1 5.1 19 0 0
2016 3.7 2.2 14 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · OR · Hermiston

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 65 employers in Hermiston, OR · 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 Kitchen Cooked - Farmington 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aaron Thomas Company Mendenhall 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods Inc. 21 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kings Mountain 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Results Partners LLC 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCC Schlosser 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE IKEA #028 Portland 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benson Industries, Inc. 341 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6037 919 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6037 818 FTE
CITY-NEAR HERMISTON OR 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mj's Labor Services Inc. 507 FTE
NAT-TCR Tops #228 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HG509 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kay Dix, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Massachusetts Eye and Ear 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE L&F Distributors - McAllen 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE GA.DULUT.1 - Ricoh Usa, Inc 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #2751 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE USM Store #560 (Market Street) 343 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: 2022, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.