Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing · Wisconsin

Valley Popcorn Inc

Neenah, WI · ~33 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Popcorn Inc runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Valley Popcorn Inc: 3.6 TCR = 88% of Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Popcorn Inc safety composite

Valley Popcorn Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Valley Popcorn Inc: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2023

Valley Popcorn Inc's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Neenah, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 88% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO KILLINGLY
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KILLINGLY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Popcorn Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Popcorn Inc averages 3.6 TCR (88% of the Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Popcorn Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2020=6.7 · 2023=4 · BLS 4.1

Where Valley Popcorn Inc falls in its industry

253 Corn chips and related corn sn establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Corn chips and related corn sn employers in Wisconsin.

Valley Popcorn Inc (33 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Valley Popcorn Inc
Valley Popcorn Inc (33 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Valley Popcorn Inc has fewer employees than the Corn chips and related corn snacks manuf median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2020 6.7 3.4 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · WI · Neenah

253 Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 182 employers in Neenah, WI · 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 KILLINGLY 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 065 Chillicothe OH 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BFC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR KILLINGLY PLANT 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Sun Prairie 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Atkinson 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gorman General Contractors 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&J Contractors I LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Neenah IOEC Corporate Offices 1,745 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miron Construction Co., Inc. 1,490 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Regional Medical Center - Neenah 1,445 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Regional Medical Center Neenah 1,399 FTE
NAT-TCR AHC Forest Cove 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR BOSTON 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewark Metal Spinning, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brook & Whittle, Ltd. - North Branford 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE IDT - Tennessee 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE 104 - Gainesville 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Vernon Township School Dist 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Dunkirk City School District 33 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, 2020, 2016. 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.