Landscape care and maintenance services · Pennsylvania

Hershey Nursery

Hershey, PA · ~35 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hershey Nursery runs at 240% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade F.

Hershey Nursery: 10.8 TCR = 240% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hershey Nursery safety composite

Hershey Nursery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Hershey Nursery held a steady TCR band

Hershey Nursery's TCR held near 0.1 from 12.6 in 2016 to 12.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.6 · 2017=11.2 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=12.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Hershey, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 240% of ind

  • DART 12.7 DART
  • RANK #102/122
  • PHOTO J. Sharp's Landscapi…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J. Sharp's Landscaping, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hershey Nursery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hershey Nursery averages 10.8 TCR (240% of the Landscape care and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Hershey Nursery TCR series: 2016=12.6 · 2017=11.2 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=12.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Hershey Nursery falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #102 safest of 122 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Pennsylvania.

Hershey Nursery (35 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hershey Nursery
Hershey Nursery (35 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hershey Nursery has fewer employees than the Landscape care and maintenance services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2019 12.7 12.7 3 0 0
2018 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2017 11.2 11.2 4 0 0
2016 12.6 5.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · PA · Hershey

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services 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 J. Sharp's Landscaping, Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TURFMaster, Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brogan Landscaping, Inc.- Central Region 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Complete Property Maintenance 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE W.A.C. Mushrooms Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highland Oysters 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Spawning, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE PANTHER CREEK POWER OPERATING 35 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 4054-Abs 0007 1708 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Continuing Care Hospital - Lex 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stratford Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trisun Care Center Northeast El Paso 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Easter Seals Hawaii - Napuakea Service Center 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nolana Store 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Markarian Family L.P. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Grand Hotel Bridgeport 35 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: 2019, 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.