Vegetable canning · Pennsylvania

hanover Foods Canning

Hanover, PA · ~222 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

hanover Foods Canning runs at 274% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetable canning workplace, earning a grade F.

hanover Foods Canning: 9.0 TCR = 274% of Vegetable canning BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

hanover Foods Canning safety composite

hanover Foods Canning scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

8/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

hanover Foods Canning: 8.8 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2022

hanover Foods Canning's TCR rose 1.2 from 8.8 in 2020 to 10.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 274% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #21/26
  • PHOTO AM Braswell Jr. Food…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 63 inj
  • SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AM Braswell Jr. Food Company (0.0 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 9.0 TCR (274% of the Vegetable canning BLS benchmark).

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

hanover Foods Canning TCR series: 2020=8.8 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=10 · BLS 3.3

Where hanover Foods Canning falls in its industry

330 Vegetable canning establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #21 safest of 26 Vegetable canning employers in Pennsylvania.

hanover Foods Canning (222 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 (222 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Vegetable canning 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
2022 10.0 8.1 20 1 1
2021 8.3 6.7 20 0 0
2020 8.8 8.1 23 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · PA · Hanover

330 Vegetable canning 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 AM Braswell Jr. Food Company 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knouse Foods - Chambersburg 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DelMonte Foods, Inc. Plant #114 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Beverage Corporation 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GFM 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Penn Natural Gas Empire 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE TCCo-PHI 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springs Window Fashions - Customer Service 222 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 MedVet Lexington 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 540028-Aberdeen Po 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 057398-South Gate Po 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 165298-Morrison Po 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 103655 - Blue Water Energy Center 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE FL018 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Billings Family YMCA 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wal*Mart Return: Johnstown. (SMRU0217) 222 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.