Hanover Foods, Centre Hall PA
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CENTRE HALL, PA | Food Processing
~122 avg employees | 3 years of OSHA data
Hanover Foods, Centre Hall PA has an average TCR of 13.7, which is 414% of the industry average (3.3) for Food Processing. This is significantly worse than average.
Safety Insights for Hanover Foods, Centre Hall PA
Hanover Foods, Centre Hall PA operates an establishment with approximately 122 full-time equivalent workers in CENTRE HALL, PA, classified under the Food Processing industry (NAICS 311411). Across 3 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 45 recordable injuries, 6 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 13.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the F letter grade (Failing Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 3.3 for Food Processing, Hanover Foods, Centre Hall PA's workforce experiences 414% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 3 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating Hanover Foods, Centre Hall PA as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Hanover Foods, Centre Hall PA's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311411 — Food Processing.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2020)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
15 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 249,006 hours worked = 12.05 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Hanover Foods, Centre Hall PA (this establishment) | 13.66 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Fruits, frozen, manufacturing industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 311411 |
| Pennsylvania state avg (all industries) | 18.85 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Hanover Foods, Centre Hall PA to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2020: 23 reportable incidents · 17 injuries, 6 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 10 reportable incidents · 10 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 18 reportable incidents · 18 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 18.5 | 12.1 | 17 | 6 | 0 |
| 2019 | 7.5 | 5.3 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 15.0 | 10.8 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
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