Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Esbenshade Mills

Mount Joy, PA · ~24 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Esbenshade Mills runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Esbenshade Mills: 6.4 TCR = 165% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Esbenshade Mills safety composite

Esbenshade Mills scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

−1.8

2016→2022

Esbenshade Mills injury rate improved

Esbenshade Mills's TCR fell 1.8 from 10.3 in 2016 to 8.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.3 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=8.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Mount Joy, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 165% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #30/42
  • PHOTO Main Street
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Esbenshade Mills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Esbenshade Mills averages 6.4 TCR (165% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Esbenshade Mills TCR series: 2016=10.3 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=0 · 2022=8.5 · BLS 3.9

Where Esbenshade Mills falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #30 safest of 42 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Pennsylvania.

Esbenshade Mills (24 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Esbenshade Mills
Esbenshade Mills (24 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Esbenshade Mills has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m median and a higher 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 8.5 8.5 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.4 6.4 2 0 0
2018 6.6 6.6 2 0 0
2017 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2016 10.3 6.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · PA · Mount Joy

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 63 employers in Mount Joy, 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 Main Street 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Plant 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR J.D. Heiskell & Co. Platteville TX 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iowa City Division 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Avon Heights Mushrooms, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waynesburg PA 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Electric Power LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greiner Industries Inc 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR MESSICK'S FARM EQUIPMENT 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DPL7 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Patterson Logistics Services 1 234 FTE
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Springhill,LA 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 314895-Las-Red Rock Vista Sta 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 480423-AUS-McNEIL STA 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 487972-Sat-Northeast Carrier Anx 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sun Chemical Minneapolis Mfg. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delcon Partners LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE View Point Dairy 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Connecticut 24 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.