Chips (e.g., corn, potato) merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Herr Foods Inc. 79

Edinburg, PA · ~27 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Herr Foods Inc. 79 runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chips (e.g., corn, potato) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Herr Foods Inc. 79: 5.3 TCR = 242% of Chips (e.g., corn, potato) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Herr Foods Inc. 79 safety composite

Herr Foods Inc. 79 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−7.6

2016→2021

Herr Foods Inc. 79 injury rate improved

Herr Foods Inc. 79's TCR fell 7.6 from 7.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.6 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=10.0 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Edinburg, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.3 · 242% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #30/38
  • PHOTO Franklin Park EmpW…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Franklin Park EmpWorkCtrCd 30001225 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Herr Foods Inc. 79 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Herr Foods Inc. 79 averages 5.3 TCR (242% of the Chips (e.g., corn, potato) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Herr Foods Inc. 79 TCR series: 2016=7.6 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=10 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Herr Foods Inc. 79 falls in its industry

773 Chips (e.g., corn, potato) mer establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 38 Chips (e.g., corn, potato) mer employers in Pennsylvania.

Herr Foods Inc. 79 (27 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Herr Foods Inc. 79
Herr Foods Inc. 79 (27 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Herr Foods Inc. 79 has fewer employees than the Chips (e.g., corn, potato) merchant whol median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.1 7.1 2 0 0
2018 10.0 10.0 3 0 0
2017 7.3 7.3 2 0 0
2016 7.6 7.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · PA · Edinburg

773 Chips (e.g., corn, potato) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 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 Franklin Park EmpWorkCtrCd 30001225 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 42321B - QUEENS DC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 42351B - WYANDANCH DC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tropical Nut & Fruit Company Orlando 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Feeney's Wholesale Nursery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunterstown Power Generation 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panda Liberty 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE LMBE Project Company LLC 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herr Foods - 079 New Castle PA 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Arcadia Health and Rehabilitation Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR C089 Memphis PC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Maryville Tire Partners 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Everbrite LLC - Buena Vista 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE TLSI - Transport - Long Beach 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Potomac Bakery Cafe 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Region 3 - Central Point 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medina Campus 27 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: 2021, 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.