Tortilla chips manufacturing · California

Warnock Food Products Inc.

Madera, CA · ~283 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Warnock Food Products Inc. runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tortilla chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Warnock Food Products Inc.: 5.9 TCR = 144% of Tortilla chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Warnock Food Products Inc. safety composite

Warnock Food Products Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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)
F 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2017→2019

Warnock Food Products Inc. injury rate improved

Warnock Food Products Inc.'s TCR fell 1.9 from 6.3 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.3 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Madera, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 144% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #9/15
  • PHOTO VANCOUVER PLANT
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~283 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VANCOUVER PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Warnock Food Products Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Warnock Food Products Inc. averages 5.9 TCR (144% of the Tortilla chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Warnock Food Products Inc. TCR series: 2017=6.3 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=4.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Warnock Food Products Inc. falls in its industry

253 Tortilla chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 15 Tortilla chips manufacturing employers in California.

Warnock Food Products Inc. (283 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 Warnock Food Products Inc.
Warnock Food Products Inc. (283 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Warnock Food Products Inc. has more employees than the Tortilla chips manufacturing 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
2019 4.3 3.7 13 0 0
2018 7.2 4.4 21 0 0
2017 6.3 4.3 21 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · CA · Madera

253 Tortilla chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 162 employers in Madera, CA · 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 VANCOUVER PLANT 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kings Mountain 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods Inc. 21 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kitchen Cooked - Farmington 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silent Springs LLC 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE DCOR LLC 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saputo Cheese_South Gate 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE Astro Pak Corporation 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pacific Farm Management Inc 17,529 FTE
CITY-NEAR Petroff Ag Services Inc 2,253 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 170 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Madera 1,393 FTE
NAT-TCR Fort Miller FAB3 Corp. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR RCX Minnesota 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 840 - Minneapolis 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Skowhegan Consolidation Building 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Park Lane Ala Moana 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ritz Carlton Residences Waikiki 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE CPGRMOEO 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, New York - Montrose 283 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: 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.