Breakfast cereals manufacturing · Iowa

Treehouse Foods

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~151 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Treehouse Foods runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Breakfast cereals manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Treehouse Foods: 5.5 TCR = 167% of Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Treehouse Foods safety composite

Treehouse Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Treehouse Foods: 4.4 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2023

Treehouse Foods's TCR rose 0.7 from 4.4 in 2021 to 5.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311230 · Cedar Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 167% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO The Weetabix Company…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Weetabix Company Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Treehouse Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Treehouse Foods averages 5.5 TCR (167% of the Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Treehouse Foods TCR series: 2021=4.4 · 2022=7 · 2023=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Treehouse Foods falls in its industry

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturin establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Breakfast cereals manufacturin employers in Iowa.

Treehouse Foods (151 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Treehouse Foods
Treehouse Foods (151 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Treehouse Foods has fewer employees than the Breakfast cereals manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 5.1 4.5 8 0 0
2022 7.0 6.3 10 0 0
2021 4.4 3.7 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311230 · IA · Cedar Rapids

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 466 employers in Cedar Rapids, IA · 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 The Weetabix Company Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grain Millers Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Betty Lou's Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bridgetown Natural Foods 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Davenport Central Campus - DVCC 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Engineering Company. Inc 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Price Electric 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Platinum Crush LLC 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE) 6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave 6,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRST EXPEDITED INC 3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Methodist Hospital 2,949 FTE
NAT-TCR RMA Allentown 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HSMTX-Janisch LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR St Clair Cleaners, Inc 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR North America : Mt. Vernon 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chino Base - Bld: 0842 - 15 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hazel Dell #022 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yuba City #026 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hines Precision Inc. 151 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. 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.