Mix, ice cream, manufacturing · California

Tropicale Foods LLC

Ontario, CA · ~368 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tropicale Foods LLC runs at 254% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mix, ice cream, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Tropicale Foods LLC: 8.4 TCR = 254% of Mix, ice cream, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tropicale Foods LLC safety composite

Tropicale Foods LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−1.3

2018→2024

Tropicale Foods LLC injury rate improved

Tropicale Foods LLC's TCR fell 1.3 from 8.7 in 2018 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.7 · 2019=11.4 · 2023=6.0 · 2024=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · Ontario, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 254% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #20/20
  • PHOTO United Dairymen of A…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 91 inj
  • SIZE ~368 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Dairymen of Arizona (Main Plant) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tropicale Foods LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tropicale Foods LLC averages 8.4 TCR (254% of the Mix, ice cream, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tropicale Foods LLC TCR series: 2018=8.7 · 2019=11.4 · 2023=6 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Tropicale Foods LLC falls in its industry

185 Mix, ice cream, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 20 Mix, ice cream, manufacturing employers in California.

Tropicale Foods LLC (368 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Tropicale Foods LLC
Tropicale Foods LLC (368 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Tropicale Foods LLC has more employees than the Mix, ice cream, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 7.4 6.7 19 0 0
2023 6.0 5.5 12 0 0
2019 11.4 7.8 35 0 0
2018 8.7 5.0 25 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · CA · Ontario

185 Mix, ice cream, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 599 employers in Ontario, 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 United Dairymen of Arizona (Main Plant) 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Banos Processing Plant 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medford Maple Island 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tova Industries 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Service Champions 368 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ms Aerospace, Inc. 368 FTE
STATE-SIZE K01 AER - Oceanside 368 FTE
STATE-SIZE DENSO PRODUCTS AND SERVICES AMERICAS INC 368 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prime Healthcare Services Inc. Location: St. Mary's, Passaic LLC 46-3499370 (HP29) 10,997 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAONA - ONTARIO HUB 4,372 FTE
CITY-NEAR ONTARIO HUB (CAONA) 3,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atlantic Solutions Group Inc, Inc. DBA Empire Workforce Solutions 3,240 FTE
NAT-TCR Txfor - Independence Hub 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR EB Ridges Care Center 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Builders Supply Co., Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Pultrusions, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chr Hansen - West Allis 368 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pawlb - Wilkes-Barre 368 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thos. Somerville Co. 368 FTE
NAT-SIZE DC39 368 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.