Cheese Manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA

Hummelstown, PA · ~79 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA: 4.7 TCR = 144% of Cheese Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA safety composite

Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2022→2024

Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA injury rate improved

Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA's TCR fell 2.9 from 6.2 in 2022 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.2 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 144% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO Lactalis USA Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lactalis USA Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA averages 4.7 TCR (144% of the Cheese Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA TCR series: 2022=6.2 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA falls in its industry

377 Cheese Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #9 safest of 14 Cheese Manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA (79 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA
Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA (79 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Ingredients - Cheese - Hummelstown PA has fewer employees than the Cheese Manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2022 6.2 6.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · PA · Hummelstown

377 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 Lactalis USA Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Logan plant 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wiskerchen Cheese Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MARATHON CHEESE CORPORATION 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE John C. Leo & Son, LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.J. Mushroom Co., LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ernst Conservation Seeds Inc 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Specialty Egg 79 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 Avancez Assembly Hazel Park 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Air Alliance Team 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR HCA Florida West Tampa Hospital 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Munch's Supply IL/IN - Elgin 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Academy of Computer Science and Engineering 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Museum Academy 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kennedy Krieger Pact 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Astoria Wire Products, Inc. 79 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.