Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Just Born Quality Confections

Bethlehem, PA · ~581 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Just Born Quality Confections runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Just Born Quality Confections: 8.6 TCR = 205% of Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Just Born Quality Confections safety composite

Just Born Quality Confections scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Just Born Quality Confections held a steady TCR band

Just Born Quality Confections's TCR held near 0.1 from 7.4 in 2020 to 7.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.4 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Bethlehem, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 205% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Atkinson Candy Company
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 172 inj
  • SIZE ~581 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atkinson Candy Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Just Born Quality Confections in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Just Born Quality Confections averages 8.6 TCR (205% of the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Just Born Quality Confections TCR series: 2020=7.4 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=7.5 · BLS 4.2

Where Just Born Quality Confections falls in its industry

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m employers in Pennsylvania.

Just Born Quality Confections (581 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Just Born Quality Confections
Just Born Quality Confections (581 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Just Born Quality Confections has more employees than the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 7.5 7.2 41 2 0
2022 9.8 8.7 51 4 0
2021 9.7 8.4 48 5 0
2020 7.4 6.5 32 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · PA · Bethlehem

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 358 employers in Bethlehem, 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 Atkinson Candy Company 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spangler Candy Co. (INC.) 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kenny's Candy and Confections 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bequet Confections (2) 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chambersburg Roll Facility 581 FTE
STATE-SIZE 277 APL - JONESTOWN 582 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Chester HQ 582 FTE
STATE-SIZE 11932 580 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 5,338 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Physician's Group 3,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Muhlenberg 2,139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4087 2,105 FTE
NAT-TCR Flame Furnace Company 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TPI Yauco 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Scottdel Cushion Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Edgewood Dickinson 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE James Hardie Building Products Chicago Office 581 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heating and Air Conditioning 581 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco Chicago 581 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 581 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, 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.