Tortilla chips manufacturing · North Carolina

Star Snax LLC

Conover, NC · ~111 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Star Snax LLC runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tortilla chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Star Snax LLC: 5.7 TCR = 139% of Tortilla chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Star Snax LLC safety composite

Star Snax LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−1.0

2019→2023

Star Snax LLC injury rate improved

Star Snax LLC's TCR fell 1.0 from 4.2 in 2019 to 3.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.2 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Conover, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 139% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Herr Foods - 020 Pro…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Herr Foods - 020 Production Nottingham (0.0 TCR gap)

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Star Snax LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Star Snax LLC averages 5.7 TCR (139% of the Tortilla chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Star Snax LLC TCR series: 2019=4.2 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=3.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Star Snax LLC falls in its industry

253 Tortilla chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Tortilla chips manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Star Snax LLC (111 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Star Snax LLC
Star Snax LLC (111 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Star Snax LLC has fewer employees than the Tortilla 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
2023 3.2 3.2 3 0 0
2022 8.2 6.4 9 0 0
2021 7.2 7.2 7 0 0
2019 4.2 4.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · NC · Conover

253 Tortilla chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 95 employers in Conover, NC · 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 Herr Foods - 020 Production Nottingham 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SL Snacks AZ, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods Inc. 20 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smith Farms 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Energy Management 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Tennessee Statewide Operations 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4300 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zenith - Conover 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4224 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4224 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2510 Conover Folding 309 FTE
NAT-TCR Pretium Packaging - Troy 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Marketing Alliance Samples INC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hammond, Indiana 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Golf Bonneville 954 Connor St. 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unit #2960 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #1368 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metro- Portland 5' Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE C&B-Door Pro Houston TX 660 111 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.