Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing · Washington

VMS Vancouver

Vancouver, WA · ~321 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VMS Vancouver runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

VMS Vancouver: 1.5 TCR = 35% of Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VMS Vancouver safety composite

VMS Vancouver scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

VMS Vancouver: 1.7 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2023

VMS Vancouver's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.7 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Vancouver, WA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 35% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Perfetti Van Melle U…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~321 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford (0.0 TCR gap)

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VMS Vancouver in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VMS Vancouver averages 1.5 TCR (35% of the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

VMS Vancouver TCR series: 2017=1.7 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=0.3 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=2 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 4.2

Where VMS Vancouver falls in its industry

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m employers in Washington.

VMS Vancouver (321 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate VMS Vancouver
VMS Vancouver (321 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

VMS Vancouver has more employees than the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturi median and a lower 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
2023 2.6 2.3 8 0 0
2022 2.0 2.0 6 0 0
2021 1.9 1.6 6 0 0
2020 1.2 1.2 4 0 0
2019 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2018 0.7 0.7 2 0 0
2017 1.7 1.4 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · WA · Vancouver

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 490 employers in Vancouver, WA · 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 Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Popcorn Alley Inc dba Stonehedge Farms 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ford Gum and Machine Co., Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Hershey Company-Memphis, TN 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Puyallup WA 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE 701-00265 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE 701-00659 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE 981580000 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hawthorn Senior Living 3,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwest Medical Center Main Campus 3,464 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6994-PL600 1,970 FTE
CITY-NEAR 600 1,922 FTE
NAT-TCR Quality Mechanicals, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lancaster EMS - Quarryville 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Redlands - Bld: 0687 - 15 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ardex, L.P. Dallas 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greenwich Ct Plant 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plymouth Harbor 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bios Corporate Office 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Land O' lakes - Spencer 321 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, 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.