Potato chips manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Herr Foods Inc. 20

Nottingham, PA · ~626 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Herr Foods Inc. 20 runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Herr Foods Inc. 20: 5.7 TCR = 138% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Herr Foods Inc. 20 safety composite

Herr Foods Inc. 20 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Herr Foods Inc. 20 held a steady TCR band

Herr Foods Inc. 20's TCR held near 0.2 from 5.4 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.4 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Nottingham, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 138% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #34/50
  • PHOTO SL Snacks AZ, LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 130 inj
  • SIZE ~626 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SL Snacks AZ, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Herr Foods Inc. 20 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Herr Foods Inc. 20 averages 5.7 TCR (138% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Herr Foods Inc. 20 TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=5.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Herr Foods Inc. 20 falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 50 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Herr Foods Inc. 20 (626 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Herr Foods Inc. 20
Herr Foods Inc. 20 (626 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Herr Foods Inc. 20 has more employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 5.2 3.6 25 0 0
2019 3.3 1.6 14 0 0
2018 6.6 4.8 32 1 0
2017 7.8 6.4 34 0 0
2016 5.4 3.2 25 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · PA · Nottingham

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 8 employers in Nottingham, 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 SL Snacks AZ, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 020 Production Nottingham 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Star Snax LLC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sparks Marketing Corp 626 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Hospital 626 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Pride Inc Plant 2 627 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Luke's Monroe 625 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herr Foods - 010 Corporate 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herr Foods Inc. Corp 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herr Foods - 040 Transportation Nottingham 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herr Foods Inc. 60 88 FTE
NAT-TCR Insource Performance Solutions at Lowes Statesville 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Omniafiltra LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Duke's Root Control, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bristol Group 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kinston 2 Packaged 626 FTE
NAT-SIZE COACH JAX Distribution Center 626 FTE
NAT-SIZE PBI - 27 Waterview (CT05) 626 FTE
NAT-SIZE 135 Adams Ave 626 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.