Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Joy Baking Group Cookie

Hermitage, PA · ~162 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joy Baking Group Cookie runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Joy Baking Group Cookie: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joy Baking Group Cookie safety composite

Joy Baking Group Cookie scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Joy Baking Group Cookie: 5.9 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2023

Joy Baking Group Cookie's TCR rose 1.1 from 5.9 in 2022 to 7.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311821 · Hermitage, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO Creative Food Ingred…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Creative Food Ingredients-Missouri (0.1 TCR gap)

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Joy Baking Group Cookie in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joy Baking Group Cookie averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Joy Baking Group Cookie TCR series: 2022=5.9 · 2023=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Joy Baking Group Cookie falls in its industry

166 Bakery products, dry (e.g., bi establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 14 Bakery products, dry (e.g., bi employers in Pennsylvania.

Joy Baking Group Cookie (162 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Joy Baking Group Cookie
Joy Baking Group Cookie (162 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Joy Baking Group Cookie has fewer employees than the Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, co median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 7.1 5.8 10 1 0
2022 5.9 5.9 7 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311821 · PA · Hermitage

166 Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 64 employers in Hermitage, 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 Creative Food Ingredients-Missouri 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Traditional Baking 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mary's Gone Crackers 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joy Baking Group Flagstaff 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wilkinsburg 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHW 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE LINDE CORPORATION 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smucker Company 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Joy Cone Company 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Keystone Blind Assoc 662 FTE
CITY-NEAR Joy Cone Hermitage 502 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1568 439 FTE
NAT-TCR Kearney 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Georgia Hardwoods Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern New Mexico Medical Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1222 DAYTON, OH 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE CarolinaPower, Inc. 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwestern Wire, Inc. 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Custom Metal Fabricating, Inc 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Irvine Aero Ca 162 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: 2023, 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.