Other Snack Food Manufacturing · Ohio

Wooster Plant

Wooster, OH · ~359 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wooster Plant runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Other Snack Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Wooster Plant: 3.5 TCR = 86% of Other Snack Food Manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wooster Plant safety composite

Wooster Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

Wooster Plant: 3.2 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2024

Wooster Plant's TCR rose 0.8 from 3.2 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Wooster, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #15/27
  • PHOTO ARLINGTON PLANT
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~359 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ARLINGTON PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wooster Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wooster Plant averages 3.5 TCR (86% of the Other Snack Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wooster Plant TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=2.1 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=4 · BLS 4.1

Where Wooster Plant falls in its industry

253 Other Snack Food Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 27 Other Snack Food Manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Wooster Plant (359 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Wooster Plant
Wooster Plant (359 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Wooster Plant has more employees than the Other Snack Food 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
2024 4.0 0.6 12 1 0
2023 4.8 3.6 12 0 0
2022 3.4 2.3 12 0 0
2018 2.1 1.2 7 0 0
2017 3.2 1.5 9 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · OH · Wooster

253 Other Snack Food Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 133 employers in Wooster, 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 ARLINGTON PLANT 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BELOIT PLANT 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR KILLINGLY 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Popcorn Inc 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors Cleveland 359 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3262 359 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shiseido Americas 359 FTE
STATE-SIZE Madison Health 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scaheffler Transmissions LLC 1,907 FTE
CITY-NEAR LuK USA LLC 1,814 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaeffler Transmission LLC 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR College of Wooster 771 FTE
NAT-TCR The Building Center Inc - Mebane 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ABS Sanford Door 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Glen Burnie 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kleeberg SheetMetal 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Julian Electric Inc. 359 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miwoo - Woodbridge 359 FTE
NAT-SIZE Txckl - Chalk Hill 359 FTE
NAT-SIZE Punxsutawney Area Hospital 359 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, 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.