Souvenir shops · Pennsylvania

Hershey Chocolate World

Hershey, PA · ~633 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hershey Chocolate World runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Souvenir shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Hershey Chocolate World: 5.1 TCR = 150% of Souvenir shops BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hershey Chocolate World safety composite

Hershey Chocolate World scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hershey Chocolate World: 4.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2021

Hershey Chocolate World's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.0 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453220 · Hershey, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 150% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Christmas Tree Shops…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~633 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Christmas Tree Shops Richmond (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hershey Chocolate World in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hershey Chocolate World averages 5.1 TCR (150% of the Souvenir shops BLS benchmark).

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

Hershey Chocolate World TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=7.8 · 2021=4.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Hershey Chocolate World falls in its industry

70 Souvenir shops establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Souvenir shops employers in Pennsylvania.

Hershey Chocolate World (633 employees, TCR 5.1) among 7 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 4.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 8 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 0200400600800 123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Spencer Gifts LLCTropical Shell & GiftCASTLE MEGASTORE GROUP INCBronner's Christmas WonderlandBerlin Village Gift BarnDave's Fresh Marketplace Baskets IncEGM-McCarranHershey Chocolate World
Hershey Chocolate World (633 employees, TCR 5.1) among 7 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hershey Chocolate World has more employees than the Souvenir shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2021 4.4 2.8 11 0 0
2018 7.8 4.0 23 0 0
2017 4.3 3.0 12 1 0
2016 4.0 1.7 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453220 · PA · Hershey

70 Souvenir shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 47 employers in Hershey, 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 Christmas Tree Shops Richmond 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christmas Tree Shops Williston 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christmas Tree Shops Staten Island 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christmas Tree Shops Foxboro 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE DEL0000035 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - UPPER DARBY 633 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9720 633 FTE
STATE-SIZE KME 634 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Mennonite Home-The Mennonite Home-Woodcrest Villa 634 FTE
CITY-NEAR A045 - Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center 7,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hersheypark Entertainment Complex 2,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hershey Entertainment Complex 2,682 FTE
CITY-NEAR A021 - Penn State Health Administrative Offices 1,813 FTE
NAT-TCR Kendal at Granville 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kme Va 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Zumbrota-Mazeppa Elementary 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Uniphase, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. Vinland 633 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota Correctional Facility-Faribault 633 FTE
NAT-SIZE 396139-Oklahoma City Ok P&Dc 633 FTE
NAT-SIZE WP Beverages, LLC 633 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.