Food Manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Chester A Asher

Souderton, PA · ~112 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chester A Asher runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Chester A Asher: 5.3 TCR = 127% of Food Manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chester A Asher safety composite

Chester A Asher scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−0.5

2018→2024

Chester A Asher injury rate improved

Chester A Asher's TCR fell 0.5 from 5.4 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.4 · 2021=8.0 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311352 · Souderton, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 127% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #14/20
  • PHOTO Palmer Candy Company…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Palmer Candy Company - Bluff (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chester A Asher in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chester A Asher averages 5.3 TCR (127% of the Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chester A Asher TCR series: 2018=5.4 · 2021=8 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 4.2

Where Chester A Asher falls in its industry

86 Food Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 20 Food Manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Chester A Asher (112 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chester A Asher
Chester A Asher (112 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Chester A Asher has fewer employees than the Food Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 4.8 4.0 5 1 0
2023 3.2 2.4 3 1 0
2021 8.0 7.2 10 0 0
2018 5.4 5.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311352 · PA · Souderton

86 Food Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 69 employers in Souderton, 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 Palmer Candy Company - Bluff 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edward Marc Chocolatier LLC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TreeHouse Foods, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chase Candy Co 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Montour, LLC 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Overhead Transmission Center 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar - Philadelphia 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kay Builders 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS Souderton INC 1,402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Almac Clinical Services LLC 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Almac Clinical Technologies LLC 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leidy's Inc. 297 FTE
NAT-TCR Nob Hill 606-Campbell 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin Flooring Company Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Concrete Inc DBA Knife River 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Brandt Construction Co. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harborview Pierce County 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tuttle Construction 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warren Barr Orland Park 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pine Bluff 112 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, 2021, 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.