Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables · Indiana

VDF Crown Point

Crown Point, IN · ~58 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VDF Crown Point runs at 288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade F.

VDF Crown Point: 9.5 TCR = 288% of Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VDF Crown Point safety composite

VDF Crown Point scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

VDF Crown Point: 5.0 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 19.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

VDF Crown Point's TCR rose 3.5 from 5.0 in 2016 to 8.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 19.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Crown Point, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 288% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK P15
  • PHOTO Idahoan Foods, LLC- …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Idahoan Foods, LLC- WHS 330 (0.0 TCR gap)

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VDF Crown Point in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VDF Crown Point averages 9.5 TCR (288% of the Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

VDF Crown Point TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=9.5 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=9.5 · 2020=19.3 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=12.8 · 2023=5 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 3.3

Where VDF Crown Point falls in its industry

123 Freeze-dried, food processing, establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
VDF Crown Point (58 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate VDF Crown Point
VDF Crown Point (58 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

VDF Crown Point has fewer employees than the Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits an median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 8.5 5.7 6 0 0
2023 5.0 5.0 3 0 0
2022 12.8 10.7 10 2 0
2021 6.4 4.3 3 0 0
2020 19.3 19.3 9 0 0
2019 9.5 9.5 5 0 0
2018 9.4 9.4 5 0 0
2017 9.5 7.1 4 0 0
2016 5.0 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · IN · Crown Point

123 Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 67 employers in Crown Point, IN · 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 Idahoan Foods, LLC- WHS 330 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR High and Dry Dehydrators LLC 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MARSHES 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shelley - BAF 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Indiana American Water - Greenwood 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Outside Plant 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Hoosier Company, Inc. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Service Electric Of Allen County, Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake County Government 2,157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Health Crown Point 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR GridHawk LLC 556 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Physician Network Crown Point 283 FTE
NAT-TCR 1701 Lkq 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rex-Cut Products, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Strait Steel, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hebron Brick Company 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE CMC Impact Metals Pell City 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMC Rebar Gastonia 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 1 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE L.S. Lee, Inc./PA Construction 58 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.