Sauces, tomato-based, canning · Ohio

Summer Garden

Boardman, OH · ~61 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Summer Garden runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sauces, tomato-based, canning workplace, earning a grade C.

Summer Garden: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Sauces, tomato-based, canning BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summer Garden safety composite

Summer Garden scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

Summer Garden: 0.0 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2021

Summer Garden's TCR rose 2.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Boardman, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #16/23
  • PHOTO Seneca Foods Corpora…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seneca Foods Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Summer Garden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Summer Garden averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Sauces, tomato-based, canning BLS benchmark).

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

Summer Garden TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=10.2 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Summer Garden falls in its industry

330 Sauces, tomato-based, canning establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 23 Sauces, tomato-based, canning employers in Ohio.

Summer Garden (61 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Summer Garden
Summer Garden (61 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Summer Garden has fewer employees than the Sauces, tomato-based, canning median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2021 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2020 3.7 1.2 3 0 0
2019 10.2 5.8 7 0 0
2018 3.1 1.6 2 0 0
2017 3.2 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · OH · Boardman

330 Sauces, tomato-based, canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 60 employers in Boardman, 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 Seneca Foods Corporation 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Maid Products 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knouse Foods - Peach Glen 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burnette Foods, Inc. New Era Facility 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE DHI COOPERATIVE 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Technologies International 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Operations Center 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIN 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center 1,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health St Elizabeth Boardman 1,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Elizabeth Boardman 1,095 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron - Mahoning Valley 818 FTE
NAT-TCR Lighting Maintenance Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MultiCare Clinics- Non-Urgent Care 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR HF Optimeyes Westland Super 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Winsted 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lumber Specialties - Story City 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Long Meadow FS (GTS, HTSG) 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elite Fire Safety, Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ruan Transport Corporation T-667 61 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.