Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans · Pennsylvania

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln

Lititz, PA · ~77 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade A.

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln: 2.1 TCR = 49% of Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln safety composite

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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 - West Lincoln: 1.4 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2021

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.4 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Lititz, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.1 · 49% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #9/23
  • PHOTO Cargill Cocoa and Ch…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate West Lincoln (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln averages 2.1 TCR (49% of the Chocolate, confectionery, 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 - West Lincoln TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=3.4 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.9 · BLS 4.2

Where Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln falls in its industry

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #9 safest of 23 Chocolate, confectionery, made employers in Pennsylvania.

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln (77 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 - West Lincoln
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln (77 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln has fewer employees than the Chocolate, confectionery, made from caca 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
2021 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2020 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2018 3.4 2.3 3 0 0
2017 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · PA · Lititz

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 75 employers in Lititz, 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 and Chocolate West Lincoln 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hershey's Chocolate - Robinson 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tru Food MFG 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middletown Egg 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Lancaster 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Transwall Office Systems 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reynolds Enterprises, Inc. - Reynolds Construction, LLC (Harrisburg) 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Lititz 593 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson Consumer Health Care Lititz 551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Landis Homes 519 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tait Towers Manufacturing LLC 482 FTE
NAT-TCR Karr Transportation 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dsg Dresch 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Champion Oaks 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Retama Manor Nursing Center San Antonio North 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Port Arthur Office 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Veritiv Operating Company - MD001 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shure-Line Construction 77 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: 2021, 2020, 2018, 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.