Hot dogs (except poultry) made from purchased carcasses · Pennsylvania

Berks Packing Co., Inc.

Reading, PA · ~151 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berks Packing Co., Inc. runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hot dogs (except poultry) made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Berks Packing Co., Inc.: 8.0 TCR = 242% of Hot dogs (except poultry) made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berks Packing Co., Inc. safety composite

Berks Packing Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Berks Packing Co., Inc.: 6.4 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2019

Berks Packing Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 2.7 from 6.4 in 2016 to 9.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 242% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #25/37
  • PHOTO Roger Wood Foods
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Roger Wood Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berks Packing Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berks Packing Co., Inc. averages 8.0 TCR (242% of the Hot dogs (except poultry) made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Berks Packing Co., Inc. TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2018=8.5 · 2019=9.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Berks Packing Co., Inc. falls in its industry

613 Hot dogs (except poultry) made establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 37 Hot dogs (except poultry) made employers in Pennsylvania.

Berks Packing Co., Inc. (151 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Berks Packing Co., Inc.
Berks Packing Co., Inc. (151 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Berks Packing Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Hot dogs (except poultry) made from purc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2019 9.1 7.5 17 0 0
2018 8.5 4.8 15 1 0
2016 6.4 3.5 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · PA · Reading

613 Hot dogs (except poultry) made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, 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 Roger Wood Foods 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hutchinson Plant (KPR) 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Iowa Pork 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fulton Provision Company 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 931-NiSource-York PA 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Utilities Middletown 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reading Site Contractors 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carlton Pools, Inc 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR #641 Brick Shoprite 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Andersen's Sales and Salvage Inc 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrisonburg - 115 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Greensboro Jail 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 654 - Huntington Station 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tradesmen Corporate 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radia Corporate 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE NER 151 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.