Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Kegel's Produce

Lancaster, PA · ~166 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kegel's Produce runs at 655% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Kegel's Produce: 14.4 TCR = 655% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kegel's Produce safety composite

Kegel's Produce scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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 14.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Kegel's Produce: 13.7 → 17.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2018

Kegel's Produce's TCR rose 3.8 from 13.7 in 2016 to 17.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Lancaster, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 655% of ind

  • DART 17.5 DART
  • RANK #21/21
  • PHOTO Pacific Coast Fruit …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 74 inj
  • SIZE ~166 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Coast Fruit Company Kent (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kegel's Produce in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kegel's Produce averages 14.4 TCR (655% of the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Kegel's Produce TCR series: 2016=13.7 · 2017=12.1 · 2018=17.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Kegel's Produce falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 21 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in Pennsylvania.

Kegel's Produce (166 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kegel's Produce
Kegel's Produce (166 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Kegel's Produce has more employees than the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2018 17.5 17.5 28 0 0
2017 12.1 11.0 21 2 0
2016 13.7 13.1 25 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · PA · Lancaster

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 450 employers in Lancaster, 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 Pacific Coast Fruit Company Kent 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Legacy Farms 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Full Circle Alaska Warehouse 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPOKANE PRODUCE, INC 14.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Premier Select Sires, Inc. 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boro Developers, Inc. d/b/a Boro Construction 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Appellation Construction Services, LLC 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haverfield Aviation 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Health, LGH Hospital 7,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR LGHealth 7,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Hospital 6,528 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Medical Group 1,436 FTE
NAT-TCR IHS 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Myrtle Beach Center (Scmyr) 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Val 25 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Processing Center 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pool buiding and facilities 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Texas Medical Center Emergency Medical Sercvices (Henderson County) 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nonn's Flooring Inc 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silgan Plastics Ottawa 166 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.