Snack Food Manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE

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

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Snack Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE: 5.6 TCR = 137% of Snack Food Manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE safety composite

Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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

−10.1

2018→2020

Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE injury rate improved

Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE's TCR fell 10.1 from 12.3 in 2018 to 2.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=12.3 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 137% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #33/50
  • PHOTO Axium Foods, Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Axium Foods, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE averages 5.6 TCR (137% of the Snack Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE TCR series: 2018=12.3 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=2.1 · BLS 4.1

Where Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE falls in its industry

253 Snack Food Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #33 safest of 50 Snack Food Manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE (41 employees, TCR 5.6) 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 Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE
Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE (41 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE has fewer employees than the Snack Food Manufacturing 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
2020 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2018 12.3 9.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · PA · Hanover

253 Snack Food 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 Axium Foods, Inc 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SL Snacks AZ, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods Inc. 20 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 020 Production Nottingham 5.7 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 Pro-Pac International 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtenay Springs Village 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Viatek Solutions, Lawrenceville 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wiley Creek Community 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Cincinnati Mine Machinery Company 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Junge Center Point 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Axel Royal TX 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Online Sales 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.