Candy merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

George J. Howe Company

Grove City, PA · ~85 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

George J. Howe Company runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Candy merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

George J. Howe Company: 2.3 TCR = 105% of Candy merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

George J. Howe Company safety composite

George J. Howe Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

George J. Howe Company held a steady TCR band

George J. Howe Company's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.2 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.2 · 2021=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Grove City, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 105% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/38
  • PHOTO 43171G - ELIZABETHTO…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 43171G - ELIZABETHTOWN BIN (0.0 TCR gap)

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George J. Howe Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows George J. Howe Company averages 2.3 TCR (105% of the Candy merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

George J. Howe Company TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2021=2.4 · BLS 2.2

Where George J. Howe Company falls in its industry

773 Candy merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 38 Candy merchant wholesalers employers in Pennsylvania.

George J. Howe Company (85 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate George J. Howe Company
George J. Howe Company (85 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

George J. Howe Company has more employees than the Candy merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2021 2.4 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.2 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · PA · Grove City

773 Candy merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 40 employers in Grove City, 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 43171G - ELIZABETHTOWN BIN 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 49721C - PHOENIX ZONE 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 49321O - SALEM OR DC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BRISBANE PEC 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bear Mountain Orchards, Inc. 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE SFC System Facility Center 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE UTY - MidAtlantic - Harrisburg,PA 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Buncher Company 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Services Supply Chain Operations : Grove City, PA 585 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grove City Engine 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabtec Grove City Engine 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR UX-Grove City, PA 430 FTE
NAT-TCR Sullivans, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt Industries (Target Container) Display Division 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR UGL Illinois 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kansas City MO Repair Center 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alden Estates of Evanston 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alden Lincoln Park 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE World Water Works, Inc. 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE LHB Minneapolis 85 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: 2021, 2019. 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.