Cookies manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Joy Cone Cookie Plant

Hermitage, PA · ~89 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joy Cone Cookie Plant runs at 414% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cookies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Joy Cone Cookie Plant: 13.7 TCR = 414% of Cookies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joy Cone Cookie Plant safety composite

Joy Cone Cookie Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 Cone Cookie Plant: 6.3 → 21.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 21.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2021

Joy Cone Cookie Plant's TCR rose 14.8 from 6.3 in 2020 to 21.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.7 · 414% of ind

  • DART 19.2 DART
  • RANK #14/14
  • PHOTO 4829-13174
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4829-13174 (0.4 TCR gap)

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Joy Cone Cookie Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joy Cone Cookie Plant averages 13.7 TCR (414% of the Cookies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Joy Cone Cookie Plant TCR series: 2020=6.3 · 2021=21.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Joy Cone Cookie Plant falls in its industry

166 Cookies manufacturing establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #14 safest of 14 Cookies manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Joy Cone Cookie Plant (89 employees, TCR 13.7) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Joy Cone Cookie Plant
Joy Cone Cookie Plant (89 employees, TCR 13.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Joy Cone Cookie Plant has fewer employees than the Cookies manufacturing 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
2021 21.1 19.2 19 3 0
2020 6.3 4.7 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311821 · PA · Hermitage

166 Cookies 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 4829-13174 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alvarado Street Bakery 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crumbl Cookies 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jimmy's Cookies 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE HARSC Harrisburg Service Center 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE RS Mowery Sons 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE SDC (Hummel) 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Refrigeration Design & Service 89 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 The Home City Ice Company - Woodridge - 200 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Morsco Supply Co. #1403 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Logs 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 256290-Monroe Po 13.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Building 4 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Livonia Corporate Center 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Complete Care at Bey Lea 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE ATC Drivetrain Engine 89 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. 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.