Honey processing · Ohio

Van Wert Contract Packaging

Van Wert, OH · ~42 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van Wert Contract Packaging runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Honey processing workplace, earning a grade C.

Van Wert Contract Packaging: 4.6 TCR = 113% of Honey processing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Wert Contract Packaging safety composite

Van Wert Contract Packaging scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Van Wert Contract Packaging: 2.1 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.98× in 2020

Van Wert Contract Packaging's TCR rose 7.0 from 2.1 in 2017 to 9.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Van Wert, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.6 · 113% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Sonstegard Foods of …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sonstegard Foods of Georgia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Van Wert Contract Packaging in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Wert Contract Packaging averages 4.6 TCR (113% of the Honey processing BLS benchmark).

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

Van Wert Contract Packaging TCR series: 2017=2.1 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=9.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Van Wert Contract Packaging falls in its industry

335 Honey processing establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Honey processing employers in Ohio.

Van Wert Contract Packaging (42 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 Van Wert Contract Packaging
Van Wert Contract Packaging (42 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Van Wert Contract Packaging has fewer employees than the Honey processing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 9.2 9.2 4 0 0
2019 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · OH · Van Wert

335 Honey processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 48 employers in Van Wert, 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 Sonstegard Foods of Georgia 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baldwin Richardson Foods Macedon 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baldwin Richard Foods Williamson 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cache Creek Foods, LLC 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Goshen Pullets 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consolidated Cooperative (Mount Gilead facility) 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus Storeroom Annex Stn 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2948_12474 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR VAN WERT OH 951 FTE
CITY-NEAR Danfoss Power Solutions II, LLC 840 FTE
CITY-NEAR VW Cooked Meats Plant 685 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Farms Cooked Meats 597 FTE
NAT-TCR 7057-Enphg-Highmark Camp Hill 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ES StLouis 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Andalusia Plant 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 314 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE ALP Steel Corp. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus Scrap Material 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riemer Floors Inc 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific West Management 42 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, 2017. 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.