Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans · New York

Demets Candy Co

Horseheads, NY · ~454 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Demets Candy Co runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade A.

Demets Candy Co: 1.1 TCR = 27% of Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Demets Candy Co safety composite

Demets Candy Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

Demets Candy Co: 0.9 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2023

Demets Candy Co's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.9 in 2022 to 1.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Horseheads, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 27% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK P89
  • PHOTO Lindt Sprungli USA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~454 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lindt Sprungli USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Demets Candy Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Demets Candy Co averages 1.1 TCR (27% 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

Demets Candy Co TCR series: 2022=0.9 · 2023=1.4 · BLS 4.2

Where Demets Candy Co falls in its industry

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Demets Candy Co (454 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 Demets Candy Co
Demets Candy Co (454 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Demets Candy Co has more 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
2023 1.4 1.4 4 0 0
2022 0.9 0.7 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · NY · Horseheads

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 65 employers in Horseheads, NY · 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 Lindt Sprungli USA 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilbur Chocolate 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giannios Candy Co., Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Hershey Plant 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE KW NY, Inc. 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Minnesota Services, LLC 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE MV CORP. INC. 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE SABIC Selkirk 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elcor Operating Company, LLC 451 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elcor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1976 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jabil Inc 384 FTE
NAT-TCR The Hemlock Building 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR B&B Electric Services, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheet Metal 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Garvey Corporation 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Teva Branded Pharma R&D at West Chester 454 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8807746-Williams Sonoma-Ecdc-Nj 454 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #62 454 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brunel Energy Inc. 454 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: 2023, 2022. 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.