Food Processing · Pennsylvania

Hanover Foods; Canning

Hanover, PA · ~216 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hanover Foods; Canning runs at 386% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Processing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hanover Foods; Canning: 12.7 TCR = 386% of Food Processing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hanover Foods; Canning safety composite

Hanover Foods; Canning scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−9.4

2019→2020

Hanover Foods; Canning injury rate improved

Hanover Foods; Canning's TCR fell 9.4 from 17.4 in 2019 to 8.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 17.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=17.4 · 2020=8.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Hanover, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 386% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #26/26
  • PHOTO Juice Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~216 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Juice Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hanover Foods; Canning in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hanover Foods; Canning averages 12.7 TCR (386% of the Food Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Hanover Foods; Canning TCR series: 2019=17.4 · 2020=8.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Hanover Foods; Canning falls in its industry

330 Food Processing establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 26 Food Processing employers in Pennsylvania.

Hanover Foods; Canning (216 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hanover Foods; Canning
Hanover Foods; Canning (216 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Hanover Foods; Canning has more employees than the Food Processing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 8.1 7.3 21 0 0
2019 17.4 15.3 41 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · PA · Hanover

330 Food Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 149 employers in Hanover, 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 Juice Plant 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Desert Premium Group 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Talk O' Texas Brands Inc 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kagome USA 13.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shallenberger Construction 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE David H. Martin Excavating, Inc. 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE IVC - Philidelphia 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE HK Kolmar USA 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR CARTER DOOR & MILLWORK HUB 389 4,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanover Manufacturing Campus 1,446 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hanover 1,090 FTE
CITY-NEAR Snyders-Lance, Inc.- Hanover Manufacturing Facility 850 FTE
NAT-TCR Tft #561 Manchester Nh 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Travis Agricultural Construction 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SCP Tampa Plant 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Joseph Health System 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rice Lake Corporate Office 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE AgMart Produce IMMOKALEE SFL 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Munoz Rivera Division de Autos 876 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority 216 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. 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.