Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Bickels Snack Food WEGE

Hanover, PA · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bickels Snack Food WEGE runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bickels Snack Food WEGE: 8.1 TCR = 197% of Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bickels Snack Food WEGE safety composite

Bickels Snack Food WEGE scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bickels Snack Food WEGE: 2.1 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2022

Bickels Snack Food WEGE's TCR rose 5.5 from 2.1 in 2020 to 7.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Hanover, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.1 · 197% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #44/50
  • PHOTO P15 - Condor
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: P15 - Condor (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bickels Snack Food WEGE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bickels Snack Food WEGE averages 8.1 TCR (197% of the Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bickels Snack Food WEGE TCR series: 2020=2.1 · 2021=14.4 · 2022=7.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Bickels Snack Food WEGE falls in its industry

253 Corn chips and related corn sn establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 50 Corn chips and related corn sn employers in Pennsylvania.

Bickels Snack Food WEGE (41 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 Bickels Snack Food WEGE
Bickels Snack Food WEGE (41 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Bickels Snack Food WEGE has fewer employees than the Corn chips and related corn snacks manuf median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2022 7.7 1.9 3 1 0
2021 14.4 6.2 7 0 0
2020 2.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · PA · Hanover

253 Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 149 employers in Hanover, 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 P15 - Condor 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snyders-Lance, Inc 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rudolph Foods Company Inc Lima Pellet 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pretzels 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SpecialtyEgg 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE PA Operations 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.B. Mill & Fabricating Inc. 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miller Environmental, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR CARTER DOOR & MILLWORK HUB 389 4,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanover Manufacturing Campus 1,446 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hanover 1,090 FTE
CITY-NEAR Snyders-Lance, Inc.- Hanover Manufacturing Facility 850 FTE
NAT-TCR Swan Place 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunset Villa Care Center 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Coeur d'Alene Depot 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 057134-Selma Po 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mercy Home Health/Hospice 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Giant #546 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Place #609 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piggly Wiggly #552 41 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.