Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans · Pennsylvania

Gertrude Hawk Chocolates

Dunmore, PA · ~413 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gertrude Hawk Chocolates runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade D.

Gertrude Hawk Chocolates: 6.5 TCR = 154% of Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gertrude Hawk Chocolates safety composite

Gertrude Hawk Chocolates scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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 6.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

−2.1

2016→2020

Gertrude Hawk Chocolates injury rate improved

Gertrude Hawk Chocolates's TCR fell 2.1 from 6.4 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.4 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=5.0 · 2019=11.9 · 2020=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Dunmore, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 154% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #20/23
  • PHOTO Dandelion Chocolate
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~413 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dandelion Chocolate (0.1 TCR gap)

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Gertrude Hawk Chocolates in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gertrude Hawk Chocolates averages 6.5 TCR (154% 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

Gertrude Hawk Chocolates TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=5 · 2019=11.9 · 2020=4.2 · BLS 4.2

Where Gertrude Hawk Chocolates falls in its industry

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #20 safest of 23 Chocolate, confectionery, made employers in Pennsylvania.

Gertrude Hawk Chocolates (413 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Gertrude Hawk Chocolates
Gertrude Hawk Chocolates (413 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Gertrude Hawk Chocolates has more employees than the Chocolate, confectionery, made from caca 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
2020 4.2 1.9 6 5 0
2019 11.9 4.7 9 14 0
2018 5.0 1.7 4 8 0
2017 4.8 4.1 22 4 0
2016 6.4 4.3 25 12 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · PA · Dunmore

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 33 employers in Dunmore, 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 Dandelion Chocolate 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR R. M. Palmer Company - Building #1 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bemis North America - Hazleton 413 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2300 413 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blair LLC - Corporate Office & Warren Service Center 413 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jetson Specialty Marketing Services Inc 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR Traditional Home Health and Hospice 721 FTE
CITY-NEAR SCRANTON GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES - GBS (PASCN) 525 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAID RITE SPECIALTY FOODS INC 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR PASCN - SCRANTON GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES - GBS 326 FTE
NAT-TCR JK Vineyards 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 3044 & 1559 LKQ Laporte 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Association Child Care 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing Facility 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cobham Semiconductor Solutions - Colorado Springs 413 FTE
NAT-SIZE OC405 Partners JV 413 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nutley Park ShopRite 413 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Chicago - 0785 413 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: 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.