Breakfast cereals manufacturing · Ohio

Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH

Lancaster, OH · ~329 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Breakfast cereals manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH: 2.3 TCR = 71% of Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH safety composite

Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2018→2020

Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH injury rate improved

Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH's TCR fell 2.8 from 3.9 in 2018 to 1.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.9 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311230 · Lancaster, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 71% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Omaha Manufacturing …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~329 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Omaha Manufacturing Facility (0.1 TCR gap)

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Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH averages 2.3 TCR (71% 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, Lancaster OH TCR series: 2018=3.9 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH falls in its industry

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturin establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Breakfast cereals manufacturin employers in Ohio.

Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH (329 employees, TCR 2.3) 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, Lancaster OH
Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH (329 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH has more employees than the Breakfast cereals manufacturing median and a lower 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
2020 1.1 1.1 3 0 0
2019 2.1 0.7 5 1 0
2018 3.9 1.4 9 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311230 · OH · Lancaster

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 96 employers in Lancaster, 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 Omaha Manufacturing Facility 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Battle Creek Michigan Mill 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills (Albuquerque) 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills Inc. - Cedar Rapids Plant 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction - Cincinnati, OH 329 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zenith Systems 329 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geiger Brothers, Inc. 329 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooper-Standard New Philadelphia 2228 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfield Medical Center 2,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anchor Hocking Plant 1 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anchor Hocking 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3792 313 FTE
NAT-TCR DC84 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 40 Meadow Rd. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard Mesa Gateway Airport 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer Store 046 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Crystal Sugar Company Hillsboro Factory 329 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution Center - W1 329 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Maryland - 0640 329 FTE
NAT-SIZE Uic/Ruc/Mcc M62204/38019/019 329 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.