Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans · Illinois

Hershey Chocolate - Robinson

Robinson, IL · ~618 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hershey Chocolate - Robinson runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade A.

Hershey Chocolate - Robinson: 1.4 TCR = 33% of Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hershey Chocolate - Robinson safety composite

Hershey Chocolate - Robinson scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Hershey Chocolate - Robinson: 1.1 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2021

Hershey Chocolate - Robinson's TCR rose 2.3 from 1.1 in 2017 to 3.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Robinson, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 33% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Nestle - Burlington
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~618 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nestle - Burlington (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hershey Chocolate - Robinson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hershey Chocolate - Robinson averages 1.4 TCR (33% of the Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans BLS benchmark).

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

Hershey Chocolate - Robinson TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=0.3 · 2021=3.4 · BLS 4.2

Where Hershey Chocolate - Robinson falls in its industry

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 8 Chocolate, confectionery, made employers in Illinois.

Hershey Chocolate - Robinson (618 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hershey Chocolate - Robinson
Hershey Chocolate - Robinson (618 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Hershey Chocolate - Robinson has more employees than the Chocolate, confectionery, made from caca median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 3.4 1.7 15 7 0
2019 0.3 0.2 2 0 0
2018 0.7 0.2 4 0 0
2017 1.1 0.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · IL · Robinson

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 32 employers in Robinson, IL · 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 Nestle - Burlington 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Hershey Plant 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Holy Family Medical Center LTAC 618 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Berwyn 618 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockford Park District 618 FTE
STATE-SIZE ExxonMobil Joliet Refinery 619 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hershey's Chocolate - Robinson 833 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robinson Refinery 730 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRAWFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 422 239 FTE
NAT-TCR Honda of Leesburg 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cosmax USA Solon Ohio 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR WMS - Coffeyville 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR San Antonio Stamping 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advanced Bionics Valencia 618 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salida 618 FTE
NAT-SIZE William A. Hazel, Inc 618 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aslpundh Tree Expert LLC-46 618 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.