Potato chips manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc

Middleburg, PA · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc: 8.9 TCR = 218% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc safety composite

Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−2.2

2022→2024

Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc injury rate improved

Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc's TCR fell 2.2 from 8.2 in 2022 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.2 · 2023=12.6 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Middleburg, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 218% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #45/50
  • PHOTO Cherry Site
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cherry Site (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc averages 8.9 TCR (218% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc TCR series: 2022=8.2 · 2023=12.6 · 2024=6 · BLS 4.1

Where Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 50 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc (70 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc
Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc (70 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc has fewer employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 6.0 3.0 4 0 0
2023 12.6 8.4 9 0 0
2022 8.2 5.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · PA · Middleburg

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 13 employers in Middleburg, 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 Cherry Site 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mestizo Foods, LLC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grace Ind 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark Contractors, Inc. 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tutor Perini Building Corp. - Northeast 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weaver Companies, Inc. 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR PLANT 1 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR PLANT 2 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Homes of PA, LLC 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advanced Concrete Systems, Inc. 108 FTE
NAT-TCR Trulieve Ben Bostic 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shelley - BAF 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cannon Falls Store 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heaven Hill Brands 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Okmulgee Indian Clinic 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trillium Farms Layer 3 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryerson Inc 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coop Country Fruita 70 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, 2023, 2022. 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.