Chocolate (coating, instant, liquor, syrups) made from purchased chocolate · Pennsylvania

Asher's Chocolates

Lewistown, PA · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Asher's Chocolates runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chocolate (coating, instant, liquor, syrups) made from purchased chocolate workplace, earning a grade A.

Asher's Chocolates: 1.9 TCR = 46% of Chocolate (coating, instant, liquor, syrups) made from purchased chocolate BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Asher's Chocolates safety composite

Asher's Chocolates scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

−3.8

2021→2023

Asher's Chocolates injury rate improved

Asher's Chocolates's TCR fell 3.8 from 3.8 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.8 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311352 · Lewistown, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/20
  • PHOTO TOP
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TOP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Asher's Chocolates in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Asher's Chocolates averages 1.9 TCR (46% of the Chocolate (coating, instant, liquor, syrups) made from purchased chocolate BLS benchmark).

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

Asher's Chocolates TCR series: 2021=3.8 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.2

Where Asher's Chocolates falls in its industry

86 Chocolate (coating, instant, l establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 20 Chocolate (coating, instant, l employers in Pennsylvania.

Asher's Chocolates (48 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Asher's Chocolates
Asher's Chocolates (48 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Asher's Chocolates has fewer employees than the Chocolate (coating, instant, liquor, syr median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2021 3.8 3.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311352 · PA · Lewistown

86 Chocolate (coating, instant, liquor, syrups) made from purchased chocolate employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 47 employers in Lewistown, 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 TOP 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calico Cottage, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR World's Finest Chocolate 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PuratosKenosha 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sylvan America, Inc. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Esbenshade North 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rolling Rock Building Stone, Inc. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Stores Building 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEISINGER LEWISTOWN HOSPITAL 1,014 FTE
CITY-NEAR LEWISTOWN HOSPITAL 975 FTE
CITY-NEAR First Quality Retail Services, LLC 699 FTE
CITY-NEAR First Quality Baby Products NE 423 FTE
NAT-TCR Savannah River 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR M.K.S. Plumbing Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #1900 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SIE - Austin 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bear General Contractors LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pattillo Construction Corp 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fastrack Mechanical LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hardinge Grinding Group 48 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, 2021. 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.