Industry profile · NAICS 311314
Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing
Workplace injury rates across 59 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.
- 59
- Employers
- 3.7
- Avg TCR
- 4.2
- BLS benchmark
- 2,246
- Injuries
The industry picture
Employers in Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing average 3.7 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 4.2.
- 3.7
- avg TCR · reporting employers
- 4.2
- BLS national benchmark
- 59
- employers reporting
- 2,246
- recordable injuries
OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.
What Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing Safety Data Reveals
The Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing sector (NAICS 311314) encompasses 59 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 2,246 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.7 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 4.2 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 3.7 is below 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 Sugar, confectionery, 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
Page 1 of 2| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bond | University Park, IL | F | 20.2 |
| AmCane Sugar LLC - Taylor | Taylor, MI | D | 8.3 |
| Aarubco Rubber Company | Saddle Brook, NJ | D | 8.1 |
| Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc. | Santa Rosa, TX | D | 7.3 |
| Louisiana Sugarcane Coop | St. Martinville, LA | D | 7.1 |
| Westfield Factory | Paincourtville, LA | D | 6.6 |
| Lula Factory | Belle Rose, LA | D | 6.4 |
| Sugaright, LLC Ft Worth | Ft Worth, TX | D | 6.1 |
| Osceola Farms Company | Pahokee, FL | D | 6.0 |
| Sugaright El Paso | El Paso, TX | D | 5.5 |
| Sugaright LLC Fairless Hills | Fairless Hills, PA | D | 5.4 |
| Lafourche Sugars LLC | Thibodaux, LA | D | 5.2 |
| Okeelanta Corporation | South Bay, FL | D | 5.1 |
| Adams & Brooks Inc. | San Bernardino, CA | D | 5.1 |
| Florida Crystals Food Corporation | South Bay, FL | C | 5.0 |
| Pullman Sugar LLC | Chicago, IL | C | 4.8 |
| Sweet Life Services, LLC | University Park, IL | C | 4.3 |
| Kerry Ingredients | Elk Grove Village, IL | C | 4.2 |
| Michigan Sugar Company - Toledo | Toledo, MI | C | 4.2 |
| Raceland Raw Sugar LLC | Jeanerette, LA | C | 4.1 |
| Sterling Sugars, LLC | Franklin, LA | C | 3.9 |
| American Sugar Refining, Inc. | Baltimore, MD | C | 3.8 |
| ASR Group Cleveland | Clevleand, OH | C | 3.8 |
| Indiana Sugars | Gary, IN | C | 3.7 |
| Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida | Belle Glade, FL | C | 3.7 |
| American Sugar Refining - Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | C | 3.5 |
| Raceland Raw Sugar, LLC | Raceland, LA | C | 3.5 |
| C&H Sugar | Crockett, CA | C | 3.4 |
| Albanese Confectionery Group | Merrillville, IN | B | 3.1 |
| US Sugar | Buffalo, NY | B | 3.0 |
| Us Sugar Corporation | Clewiston, FL | B | 2.9 |
| Sugaright LLC Covington | Covington, TN | B | 2.9 |
| Richardsons | Canajoharie, NY | B | 2.7 |
| Cora Texas Mfg. | White Castle, LA | B | 2.6 |
| Aviator | Hazelwood, MO | B | 2.5 |
| Alma Plantation | Lakeland, LA | B | 2.5 |
| M.A. Patout Sugar Mill | Jeanerette, LA | B | 2.4 |
| Lula Sugar Factory | Belle Rose, LA | B | 2.4 |
| Idaho Candy Company | Boise, ID | B | 2.3 |
| Cajun Sugar Compant LLC | New Iberia, LA | B | 2.1 |
| American Sugar Refining, Inc. - Cleveland | Cleveland, OH | A | 2.0 |
| American Sugar Refining, INC. | Yonkers, NY | A | 2.0 |
| St. Mary Sugar Cooperative, Inc. | Jeanerette, LA | A | 2.0 |
| Sugaright | Harrisonburg, VA | A | 1.9 |
| American Sugar Refining - Yonkers | Yonkers, NY | A | 1.7 |
| Cane Sugar Mfg. | Arabi, LA | A | 1.7 |
| United States Sugar Savannah Refinery LLC | Savannah, GA | A | 1.6 |
| Sugaright LLC | Fairless Hills, PA | A | 1.5 |
| Sugaright LLC | Covington, TN | A | 1.5 |
| Astor Chocolate Corporation | Lakewood, NJ | A | 1.3 |
Safety grades are a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA and BLS data, not an official OSHA rating. Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Related
Working in Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing?
This sector averages 3.7 against a BLS benchmark of 4.2 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.
- Look up a specific employer in this industry, not just the sector average. Look up an employer
- See how this industry ranks against every other sector. Industry rankings
- Learn what an A-to-F grade requires within an industry benchmark. How grades work
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.