Bar soaps manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant

West Hazleton, PA · ~213 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bar soaps manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant: 1.2 TCR = 35% of Bar soaps manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant safety composite

Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.6

2022→2024

Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant injury rate improved

Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant's TCR fell 1.6 from 2.0 in 2022 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.0 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · West Hazleton, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Colgate Palmolive
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~213 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Colgate Palmolive (0.0 TCR gap)

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Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant averages 1.2 TCR (35% of the Bar soaps manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant TCR series: 2022=2 · 2023=1 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant falls in its industry

240 Bar soaps manufacturing establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Bar soaps manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant (213 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant
Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant (213 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant has more employees than the Bar soaps manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2024 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2023 1.0 0.5 2 0 0
2022 2.0 2.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · PA · West Hazleton

240 Bar soaps manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 17 employers in West Hazleton, 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 Colgate Palmolive 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fruit Of The Earth 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Foremost Chemical Corporation 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR STERIS St. Louis 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northeast : Pittsburgh Office 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nello Construction 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Lighting & Signalization LLC 077 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treehouse Private Brands Inc 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bemis North America - Hazleton 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR BRADLEY CALDWELL INC 388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amcor Flexibles North America, Hazleton 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amcor Flexibles North America, Inc. 330 FTE
NAT-TCR Work at Home-Wayne - Dhhs 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bella Construction of Key West, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Merck Rahway Admin 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - XMS2 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Top Cut Lawn Services 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph Mo - 3210 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Janesville Wi - 3252 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Effingham Il - 3176 213 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.