Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing · California

Sugar Foods Corporation

Commerce, CA · ~277 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sugar Foods Corporation runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sugar Foods Corporation: 4.9 TCR = 147% of Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sugar Foods Corporation safety composite

Sugar Foods Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sugar Foods Corporation: 4.4 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2024

Sugar Foods Corporation's TCR rose 0.9 from 4.4 in 2017 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311821 · Commerce, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 147% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #7/15
  • PHOTO Clif Bar Baking Comp…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 91 inj
  • SIZE ~277 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clif Bar Baking Company of Twin Falls, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sugar Foods Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sugar Foods Corporation averages 4.9 TCR (147% of the Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sugar Foods Corporation TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=2.5 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=5 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Sugar Foods Corporation falls in its industry

166 Bakery products, dry (e.g., bi establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 15 Bakery products, dry (e.g., bi employers in California.

Sugar Foods Corporation (277 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Sugar Foods Corporation
Sugar Foods Corporation (277 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Sugar Foods Corporation has more employees than the Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, co median and a higher 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
2024 5.3 5.3 13 0 0
2023 6.9 6.5 15 0 0
2022 5.0 5.0 10 0 0
2021 5.2 5.2 11 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 12 0 0
2018 4.8 4.2 16 0 0
2017 4.4 4.4 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311821 · CA · Commerce

166 Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 163 employers in Commerce, CA · 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 Clif Bar Baking Company of Twin Falls, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shirley's Cookie Co. Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Little Dutch Boy Bakeries 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Compagnon Incorporated 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE GAR BENNETT LLC 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE BYRD HARVEST INC 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAVID GONZALEZ 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&C Harvesting, Inc. 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferguson Complex 2,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 587 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCAM, LLC 1,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DLA3 771 FTE
NAT-TCR Saint-Gobain Abrasives 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Graphics Universal Inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Engineered Materials Solutions 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacobs Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kalwall Corporation-Panel & Accessories 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE Effingham Il Industrial 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Powdered Metal Company STM 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clayton Homes Sulphur Springs 277 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.