Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liquor, syrups) made from cacao beans · Pennsylvania

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate

Hazle Township, PA · ~163 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liquor, syrups) made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade A.

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate: 1.3 TCR = 30% of Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liquor, syrups) made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate safety composite

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2018→2022

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate injury rate improved

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate's TCR fell 1.7 from 1.7 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.7 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/23
  • PHOTO West Hershey Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Hershey Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate averages 1.3 TCR (30% of the Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liquor, syrups) 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 TCR series: 2018=1.7 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.2

Where Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate falls in its industry

65 Chocolate (e.g., coatings, in establishments

Safer than 83% 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 #4 safest of 23 Chocolate (e.g., coatings, in employers in Pennsylvania.

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate (163 employees, TCR 1.3) 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
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate (163 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate has fewer employees than the Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liq 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.1 1.1 2 2 0
2018 1.7 1.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · PA · Hazle Township

65 Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liquor, syrups) 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 West Hershey Plant 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giannios Candy Co., Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lindt Sprungli USA 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Demets Candy Co 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tavo Packaging 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE US172: Philadelphia 544 - SG 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Warrell Corporation 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norristown PA Depot 163 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 AMS Mechanical Systems, Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 177 - Mt Prospect 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lennar Austin/San Antonio 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 661 - Canton-CT 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sullivan-Palatek Inc 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #821 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE 64 - Woodridge 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE 428 - Elmhurst 163 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.