Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Kegels Produce

Lancaster, PA · ~143 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kegels Produce runs at 439% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Kegels Produce: 9.7 TCR = 439% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kegels Produce safety composite

Kegels Produce scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−13.3

2021→2024

Kegels Produce injury rate improved

Kegels Produce's TCR fell 13.3 from 16.5 in 2021 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 16.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=16.5 · 2022=9.2 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 439% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #18/21
  • PHOTO Walter P Rawl and So…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Walter P Rawl and Sons, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kegels Produce in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kegels Produce averages 9.7 TCR (439% 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

Kegels Produce TCR series: 2021=16.5 · 2022=9.2 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Kegels Produce falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #18 safest of 21 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in Pennsylvania.

Kegels Produce (143 employees, TCR 9.7) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kegels Produce
Kegels Produce (143 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Kegels 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
2024 3.2 3.2 5 0 0
2023 9.8 9.8 14 0 0
2022 9.2 8.2 9 0 0
2021 16.5 12.7 13 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 Walter P Rawl and Sons, Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSP Newport News 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heeren, LLC - 7 Mile 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maglio Companies - Milwaukee 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE JVI Group Inc 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minnotte Contracting Corporation - WV 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pittsburgh Region 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meco Constructors, Inc. 143 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 Valley County Water District 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SealCorp USA 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeast Reman LLC 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Oaks 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aclara Technologies, LLC - Solon 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas Dry 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andersen 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maceys Tooele 143 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, 2021. 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.