Food processing plant construction · Pennsylvania

Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003)

Freedom, PA · ~130 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003) runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Food processing plant construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003): 2.7 TCR = 94% of Food processing plant construction BLS 2.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003) safety composite

Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003): 1.8 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.91× in 2024

Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003)'s TCR rose 3.4 from 1.8 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236210 · Freedom, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 94% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #11/33
  • PHOTO Smoot Construction
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smoot Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003) averages 2.7 TCR (94% of the Food processing plant construction BLS benchmark).

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

Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003) TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 2.9

Where Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003) falls in its industry

924 Food processing plant construc establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 33 Food processing plant construc employers in Pennsylvania.

Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003) (130 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003)
Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003) (130 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Fresh Food Manufacturing (M003) has more employees than the Food processing plant construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 5.2 5.2 7 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2021 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2020 3.6 3.6 4 0 0
2019 3.6 3.6 4 0 0
2018 2.8 0.9 3 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236210 · PA · Freedom

924 Food processing plant construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 12 employers in Freedom, 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 Smoot Construction 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMAC Inc 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Campbell Construction Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daniel J. Keating 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Herbruck's of Pennsylvania, LLC 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE EAC 6270 NORTHEAST PAVING COMPANY 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE TransCore - T0760 - Harrisburg 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAINTech 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mailing Services of Pittsburgh 574 FTE
CITY-NEAR MEPPI110-116 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Giant Eagle #8991 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR PAFDM - ATRIUM INNOVATIONS EAST DLO-10448 69 FTE
NAT-TCR Red Gold Inc. - Orestes 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR J.D. Newman Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lam Research Corp Hillsboro Office 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Muscatine Power & Water Power Plant 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #4018 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moultrie Creek Nursing and Rehab Center 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metro West Nursing and Rehab Center 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE AW of Memphis 130 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.