Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans · Pennsylvania

Gertrude Hawk Ingredients

Throop, PA · ~349 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gertrude Hawk Ingredients runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade C.

Gertrude Hawk Ingredients: 4.3 TCR = 101% of Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gertrude Hawk Ingredients safety composite

Gertrude Hawk Ingredients scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−1.3

2022→2023

Gertrude Hawk Ingredients injury rate improved

Gertrude Hawk Ingredients's TCR fell 1.3 from 4.9 in 2022 to 3.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.9 · 2023=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 101% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #15/23
  • PHOTO Cargill Cocoa and Ch…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~349 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee (0.1 TCR gap)

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Gertrude Hawk Ingredients in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gertrude Hawk Ingredients averages 4.3 TCR (101% 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 Ingredients TCR series: 2022=4.9 · 2023=3.6 · BLS 4.2

Where Gertrude Hawk Ingredients falls in its industry

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #15 safest of 23 Chocolate, confectionery, made employers in Pennsylvania.

Gertrude Hawk Ingredients (349 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Ingredients
Gertrude Hawk Ingredients (349 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Gertrude Hawk Ingredients 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
2023 3.6 3.6 10 2 0
2022 4.9 4.0 14 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · PA · Throop

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 8 employers in Throop, 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 Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blommer Chocolate Chicago 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 750 Pine Street 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fujirebio Diagnostics Inc., Malvern 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenleaf Corporation 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE HYDAC Technology Corp. 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3495-11DA097 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pennsylvania Steel- Throop 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scranton Electric Heating & Cooling Service Inc. 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nivert Metal Supply, Inc. 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scranton Craftsmen Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-TCR CAAP Co., Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Florida Stevedoring 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Crystal Farms 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Umbro & Sons Construction 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bayamon 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1120 - Washington Dc 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (6) 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hollywood Casino Baton Rouge 349 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.