All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Ames Industries, Inc

Hershey, PA · ~51 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ames Industries, Inc runs at 323% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ames Industries, Inc: 10.7 TCR = 323% of All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ames Industries, Inc safety composite

Ames Industries, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−11.8

2020→2023

Ames Industries, Inc injury rate improved

Ames Industries, Inc's TCR fell 11.8 from 11.8 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=11.8 · 2021=17.6 · 2022=13.3 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Hershey, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 323% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #173/183
  • PHOTO Core Plastech Waterloo
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Core Plastech Waterloo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ames Industries, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ames Industries, Inc averages 10.7 TCR (323% of the All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ames Industries, Inc TCR series: 2020=11.8 · 2021=17.6 · 2022=13.3 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Ames Industries, Inc falls in its industry

2,838 All Other Plastics Product Man establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #173 safest of 183 All Other Plastics Product Man employers in Pennsylvania.

Ames Industries, Inc (51 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ames Industries, Inc
Ames Industries, Inc (51 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ames Industries, Inc has fewer employees than the All Other Plastics Product 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 13.3 13.3 2 2 0
2021 17.6 5.9 8 1 0
2020 11.8 2.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · PA · Hershey

2,838 All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 47 employers in Hershey, PA · 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 Core Plastech Waterloo 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PPD USA Inc 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR HARVEY BUILDING PRODUCTS, LONDONDERRY NH 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cascade 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Regulated Fossil Support 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE EUD Empire 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechanicsburg 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allentown Office 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR A045 - Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center 7,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hersheypark Entertainment Complex 2,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hershey Entertainment Complex 2,682 FTE
CITY-NEAR A021 - Penn State Health Administrative Offices 1,813 FTE
NAT-TCR Greenwood Connections 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Granite City Electric Supply Co Chicopee 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sierra Pacific Farms, Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR San Jose CA - Olinder Ct 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Santosh 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Du Page Precision Products Co 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE AVENEL 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Heritage Club 51 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.