Cookies manufacturing · Ohio

Snyder's-Lance Ashland

Ashland, OH · ~118 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Snyder's-Lance Ashland runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cookies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Snyder's-Lance Ashland: 1.4 TCR = 44% of Cookies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Snyder's-Lance Ashland safety composite

Snyder's-Lance Ashland scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−1.2

2016→2018

Snyder's-Lance Ashland injury rate improved

Snyder's-Lance Ashland's TCR fell 1.2 from 2.0 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.0 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311821 · Ashland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO ABIMAR FOODS North
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ABIMAR FOODS North (0.0 TCR gap)

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Snyder's-Lance Ashland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Snyder's-Lance Ashland averages 1.4 TCR (44% of the Cookies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Snyder's-Lance Ashland TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Snyder's-Lance Ashland falls in its industry

166 Cookies manufacturing establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Cookies manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Snyder's-Lance Ashland (118 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Snyder's-Lance Ashland
Snyder's-Lance Ashland (118 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Snyder's-Lance Ashland has fewer employees than the Cookies manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2017 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2016 2.0 2.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311821 · OH · Ashland

166 Cookies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 68 employers in Ashland, 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 ABIMAR FOODS North 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snyder's Lance 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interbake foods NSC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Coast Baking 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contracting Solutions, LLC 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCI Services, Inc. 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Ice Cream Co - Utica 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE SFO Ice Cream 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashland University 2,668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Medical Center 678 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1448 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1448 368 FTE
NAT-TCR Armstrong Hardwood Flooring Company 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hydro - Delhi 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Willie Goss Enterprises, Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Crew Installations Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Willow Falls 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ybor City Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ffg Phx 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE #533 Pennington Shoprite 118 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: 2018, 2017, 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.