Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans · Pennsylvania

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc

Name: Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hazleton, PA · ~138 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 7.3
Avg TCR: 4.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade D.

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc: 7.3 TCR = 173% of Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc safety composite

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc: 7.0 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc's TCR rose 0.4 from 7.0 in 2023 to 7.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Hazleton, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 173% of ind

DART 3.3 DART
RANK #22/23
PHOTO Mona Lisa Food produ…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mona Lisa Food products/Barry Callebaut USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.7
This site

7.3
Mona Lisa Food

7.3
Seroogy's Choc

7.3
Building 3

7.1

What this shows Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc averages 7.3 TCR (173% of the Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans BLS benchmark).

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc TCR series: 2023=7 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 4.2

Where Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc falls in its industry

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 23 Chocolate, confectionery, made employers in Pennsylvania.

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc (138 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc has fewer employees than the Chocolate, confectionery, made from caca 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
2024	7.4	3.3	3	6	0
2023	7.0	2.4	3	6	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · PA · Hazleton

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 79 employers in Hazleton, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Mona Lisa Food products/Barry Callebaut USA	HENDERSONVILLE, NC	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Seroogy's Chocolates	DE PERE, WI	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Building 3	WYOMISSING, PA	7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	R. M. Palmer Company - Building #6	READING, PA	7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Jushi	SCRANTON	138 FTE
STATE-SIZE	IMC Construction - Malvern	MALVERN	138 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Heavy & Environmental Construction	STATE COLLEGE	138 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gulisek Construction LLC	MT. PLEASANT	138 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - AVP1	Hazleton	2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Case Ready Hazleton PA	Hazleton	872 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton	Hazleton	796 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LVH-Hazleton	Hazleton	722 FTE
NAT-TCR	Kysta - Stanton Center	Stanton, KY	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gabru - Brunswick	Brunswick, GA	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mimad - Madison Heights	Madison Heights, MI	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Caejs - Western Regional International Air Hub	Ontario, CA	7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	702 Cape Girardeau	Cape Girardeau, MO	138 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Colonial Heights	Colonial Heights, VA	138 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bond Distributing, LLC	Baltimore, MD	138 FTE
NAT-SIZE	James B. Donaghey	Mobile, AL	138 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: 2024, 2023. 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.