Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils · California

Ventura Foods, LLC

Ontario, CA · ~545 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Ventura Foods, LLC runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils workplace, earning a grade C.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
111
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Ventura Foods, LLC's OSHA Total Case Rate of 2.9 to the Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils BLS benchmark of 3.3 (88% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Ventura Foods, LLC's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 311225.

Where Ventura Foods, LLC falls in its industry

92 Margarine-butter blend made fr establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Margarine-butter blend made fr employers in California.

Trend analysis for Ventura Foods, LLC

Between 2017 and 2023, Ventura Foods, LLC's Total Case Rate improved from 3.8 to 2.1 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 45% decrease across 6 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 2.0, while 2018 saw the highest rate, at 4.3, a spread of 2.3 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 7 reporting years, Ventura Foods, LLC recorded 111 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 111 injuries, 5 illnesses shown on this page for Ventura Foods, LLC are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311225 - Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

12 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,145,167 hours worked = 2.10 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Ventura Foods, LLC (this establishment) 2.91 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg
Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 311225
California state avg (all industries) 5.64 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Ventura Foods, LLC to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 2.1 2.1 12 0 0
2022 2.0 2.0 11 0 0
2021 2.2 2.1 13 0 0
2020 2.9 2.9 13 3 0
2019 3.1 2.8 18 0 0
2018 4.3 3.7 24 0 0
2017 3.8 3.1 20 2 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Ventura Foods, LLC's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 88% of the Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils benchmark, Ventura Foods, LLC reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ventura Foods, LLC's safety grade?
Ventura Foods, LLC has a safety grade of C (Average Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.9 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils.
How many injuries has Ventura Foods, LLC reported?
Ventura Foods, LLC has reported 111 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 7 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.