Cleaners, drycleaning and laundry service (except coin-operated) · Pennsylvania

Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning

Palmyra, PA · ~67 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning runs at 448% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cleaners, drycleaning and laundry service (except coin-operated) workplace, earning a grade F.

Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning: 9.4 TCR = 448% of Cleaners, drycleaning and laundry service (except coin-operated) BLS 2.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning safety composite

Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−9.3

2016→2020

Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning injury rate improved

Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning's TCR fell 9.3 from 11.9 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.9 · 2017=10.1 · 2018=12.3 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812320 · Palmyra, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 448% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Albany
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Albany (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning averages 9.4 TCR (448% of the Cleaners, drycleaning and laundry service (except coin-operated) BLS benchmark).

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

Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning TCR series: 2016=11.9 · 2017=10.1 · 2018=12.3 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=2.6 · BLS 2.1

Where Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning falls in its industry

193 Cleaners, drycleaning and laun establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Cleaners, drycleaning and laun employers in Pennsylvania.

Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning (67 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning
Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning (67 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Hershey Laundry & Dry Cleaning has more employees than the Cleaners, drycleaning and laundry servic median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2019 10.1 8.7 7 0 0
2018 12.3 12.3 9 0 0
2017 10.1 4.3 7 0 0
2016 11.9 9.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812320 · PA · Palmyra

193 Cleaners, drycleaning and laundry service (except coin-operated) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 34 employers in Palmyra, 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 Albany 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT TAMPA GENERAL LINEN SERVICES 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Health Systems Cooperative Laundries 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLAINVILLE 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Metzler Forest Products LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE MC OpCo, LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seward Operating, LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Utilities Lancaster 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hershey EDC III WHS 468 FTE
CITY-NEAR PA - Hershey 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmyra - 500 North Lingle Avenue 438 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hershey EDC 3 DC - Joseph Breslin. (SMRU0220) 408 FTE
NAT-TCR Soper-Wheeler Company LLC 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wingra Stone Company 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Laurels of Mt Pleasant 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland Opera Association, Inc. 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crestwood Behavioral Health 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Louis Cold Drawn, LLC 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland PO 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Joaquin County Environmental Health Department 67 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.