Liquor, chocolate, made from cacao beans · Pennsylvania

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton

Hazle Township, PA · ~147 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Liquor, chocolate, made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade A.

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton: 1.8 TCR = 43% of Liquor, chocolate, made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton safety composite

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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 NA - Hazleton: 1.4 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2017

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.4 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Hazle Township, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 43% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #6/23
  • PHOTO Cargill Cocoa & Choc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~147 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - Wilbur Retail Store (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton averages 1.8 TCR (43% of the Liquor, chocolate, made from cacao beans BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=2.3 · BLS 4.2

Where Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton falls in its industry

65 Liquor, chocolate, made from c establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 23 Liquor, chocolate, made from c employers in Pennsylvania.

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton (147 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton (147 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton has fewer employees than the Liquor, chocolate, made from cacao beans median and a lower 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
2017 2.3 2.3 4 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · PA · Hazle Township

65 Liquor, chocolate, made from cacao beans employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 36 employers in Hazle Township, 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 Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - Wilbur Retail Store 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Endangered Species Chocolate 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate West Lincoln 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lady Farms Inc, Pennsylvania 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mill Hall 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danella Construction Corporation of Pennsylvania 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cavan 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hazleton Distribution Center 972 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Hershey Co Hazleton 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9720 633 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hershey - Hazleton Plant 533 FTE
NAT-TCR 0035 - Mesa, AZ 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MIHPADM01 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Andersons Maumee Plant Nutrient 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Action Resources - Hanceville 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bandon Pacific, Inc 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE R3Composites 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Jones Beach Theater 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE NFPG1 - Corporate Office - PlGrove 147 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.