Spices and spice mix manufacturing · Ohio

Yost Foods

Brunswick, OH · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Yost Foods runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Spices and spice mix manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Yost Foods: 4.5 TCR = 110% of Spices and spice mix manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Yost Foods safety composite

Yost Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.3

2018→2024

Yost Foods injury rate improved

Yost Foods's TCR fell 4.3 from 4.3 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.3 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Brunswick, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 110% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO Urbana - Aura Cacia
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Urbana - Aura Cacia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Yost Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Yost Foods averages 4.5 TCR (110% of the Spices and spice mix manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Yost Foods TCR series: 2018=4.3 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.1

Where Yost Foods falls in its industry

200 Spices and spice mix manufactu establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 14 Spices and spice mix manufactu employers in Ohio.

Yost Foods (35 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Yost Foods
Yost Foods (35 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Yost Foods has fewer employees than the Spices and spice mix manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 9.3 6.2 3 0 0
2018 4.3 4.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · OH · Brunswick

200 Spices and spice mix manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 52 employers in Brunswick, 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 Urbana - Aura Cacia 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Asenzya Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Griffith Foods - Lithonia 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morton Salt 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Location 1 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nursery 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Croton Pullet 3 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 1 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brunswick Family Health Center 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR Giant Eagle #0229 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brunswick Family Hlth Ctr 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Construction 191 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakeview Rehabilitation Healthcare Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dura Supreme 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ONT 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Indiana Regional Medical Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Suncroft HIHH LLC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7320 Bonded Logistics 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE JNB Mechanical Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE 300 Cedar Park 35 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, 2018. 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.