Industry profile · NAICS 311230

Breakfast cereals manufacturing

Workplace injury rates across 61 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

61
Employers
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
BLS benchmark
2,274
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Breakfast cereals manufacturing average 3.5 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.1 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.

3.5
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.3
BLS national benchmark
61
employers reporting
2,274
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Breakfast cereals manufacturing Safety Data Reveals

The Breakfast cereals manufacturing sector (NAICS 311230) encompasses 61 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 2,274 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.3 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 3.5 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Breakfast cereals manufacturing that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
New England Natural Bakers Greenfield, MA F 14.1
Garden of Light Inc dba Bakery On Main East Hartford, CT F 9.9
Productos La Finca, Inc. San German, PR F 8.8
Macon Plant Macon, GA F 7.9
Kerry Ingredients Mecca, CA F 6.7
Kerry Blue Earth Blue Earth, MN D 6.5
Stoltze Specialty Processing Medford, WI D 6.3
Attune Foods Eugene, OR D 5.8
Bridgetown Natural Foods Portland, OR D 5.8
Grain Millers Inc. St. Ansgaar, IA D 5.7
Treehouse Foods Cedar Rapids, IA D 5.5
The Weetabix Company Inc. Clinton, MA D 5.4
Betty Lou's Inc. Mcminnville, OR D 5.3
General Mills, Inc. Buffalo, NY - Cereal Plant Buffalo, NY D 5.1
Gilster Mary Lee McBride Popcorn and Cereal Plant Mcbride, MO D 4.7
Grain Millers Inc. St. Ansgar, IA D 4.6
General Mills (Buffalo Cereal) Buffalo, NY D 4.5
Joplin Cereal Joplin, MO D 4.5
Cherry Louisville, CO D 4.4
Oats Overnight Tempe, AZ D 4.3
Eugene Mill - Attune Foods Eugene, OR D 4.2
Natures Path Foods Sussex, WI D 4.1
Natures Path Foods INc Blaine, WA D 4.1
Battle Creek Manufacturing Facility Battle Creek, MI C 3.7
Grain Millers Inc Eugene, OR C 3.6
General Mills Cincinnati, OH C 3.2
General Mills Albuquerque Albuquerque, NM C 3.2
Joplin Cereal Division Joplin, MO C 3.2
General Mills Covington Site Covington, GA C 3.1
CTC Louisville, CO C 2.8
Danville Il (Quaker) Danville, IL C 2.7
Nature's Path USA II LLC Sussex, WI C 2.6
Memphis Manufacturing Facility Memphis, TN B 2.6
Battle Creek Michigan Mill Battle Creek, MI B 2.5
Omaha Manufacturing Facility Omaha, NE B 2.5
Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH Lancaster, OH B 2.3
General Mills (Albuquerque) Albuquerque, NM B 2.2
General Mills Inc. - Cedar Rapids Plant Cedar Rapids, IA B 2.1
Lancaster Ohio Lancaster, OH B 2.1
Northfield South Distribution Center Northfield, MN B 1.9
Tremonton Mill Tremonton, UT B 1.9
Campbell Mill Northfield MN Northfield, MN B 1.8
General Mills Cedar Rapids Iowa Cedar Rapids, IA B 1.8
Northfield North Distribution Center Northfield, MN B 1.8
Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker) Cedar Rapids, IA B 1.7
Asheboro Mill Asheboro, NC B 1.7
Treehouse Sparks Nevada Sparks, NV A 1.6
Post Consumer Brands SLC Distribution Center Salt Lake City, UT A 1.5
Jonesboro AR Mill Jonesboro, AR A 1.5
Lancaster Manufacturing Facility Lancaster, PA A 1.5
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This sector averages 3.5 against a BLS benchmark of 3.3 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

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.