Amusement parks (e.g., theme, water) · Pennsylvania

Hershey's Chocolate World

Hershey, PA · ~547 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hershey's Chocolate World runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Amusement parks (e.g., theme, water) workplace, earning a grade F.

Hershey's Chocolate World: 6.5 TCR = 210% of Amusement parks (e.g., theme, water) BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hershey's Chocolate World safety composite

Hershey's Chocolate World scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hershey's Chocolate World: 4.4 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2024

Hershey's Chocolate World's TCR rose 4.1 from 4.4 in 2022 to 8.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713110 · Hershey, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 210% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #9/17
  • PHOTO Dollywood Company - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~547 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dollywood Company - DreamMore Resort (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hershey's Chocolate World in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hershey's Chocolate World averages 6.5 TCR (210% of the Amusement parks (e.g., theme, water) BLS benchmark).

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

Hershey's Chocolate World TCR series: 2022=4.4 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.1

Where Hershey's Chocolate World falls in its industry

296 Amusement parks (e.g., theme, establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 17 Amusement parks (e.g., theme, employers in Pennsylvania.

Hershey's Chocolate World (547 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 197 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 010,00020,00030,00040,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hershey's Chocolate World
Hershey's Chocolate World (547 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 197 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Hershey's Chocolate World has more employees than the Amusement parks (e.g., theme, water) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2024 8.6 7.7 20 0 0
2022 4.4 4.1 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713110 · PA · Hershey

296 Amusement parks (e.g., theme, water) 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 Dollywood Company - DreamMore Resort 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoom Flume Water Park, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SeaWorld 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE US PL Allentown NPPC 547 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penelec 546 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Pride Inc / Bell & Evans Plant 2 546 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTH SHORE - PITTSBURGH (PABEA) 546 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 Focus Delivery Now 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 5505 Nesconset Hwy 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR University Health Physicians 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TX173 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Endeavor Air, Inc. - JFK Flight Operations and Inflight Base 547 FTE
NAT-SIZE GA075 Brunswick Cellulose 547 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alliance Building Services 547 FTE
NAT-SIZE Generac Power Systems, Inc. 547 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: 2024, 2022. 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.