Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Hummelstown, PA

Hummelstown, PA · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hummelstown, PA runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hummelstown, PA: 5.5 TCR = 167% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hummelstown, PA safety composite

Hummelstown, PA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Hummelstown, PA: 3.5 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2021

Hummelstown, PA's TCR rose 3.2 from 3.5 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Hummelstown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 167% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO Jerome Cheese Co
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jerome Cheese Co (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hummelstown, PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hummelstown, PA averages 5.5 TCR (167% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hummelstown, PA TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Hummelstown, PA falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 14 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Pennsylvania.

Hummelstown, PA (33 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hummelstown, PA
Hummelstown, PA (33 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Hummelstown, PA has fewer employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2020 8.8 2.9 3 0 0
2019 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · PA · Hummelstown

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 18 employers in Hummelstown, 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 Jerome Cheese Co 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BelGioioso Cheese - Byron 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunker Hill Cheese Company LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Farms 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Caputo & Guest 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colver Power Project 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oil City 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norristown Operations 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flagger Force LLC 1,899 FTE
CITY-NEAR Traffic Control Services 1,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR U-GRO Learning Centres 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR Penn State Hershey Rehabilitation 308 FTE
NAT-TCR Eaglecrest Ski Facility 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago (ORD) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Laddawn, Inc. Manchester, IA 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Impressions Incorporated-Hutchinson 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Challenger Pallet & Supply - Utah 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeview Christian Home Health Hospice 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sharpcor, Inc. - Oregon 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nuss Truck & Equipment- Burnsville 33 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, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.