Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats · Pennsylvania

Kessler'S Inc.

Lemoyne, PA · ~31 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kessler'S Inc. runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats workplace, earning a grade D.

Kessler'S Inc.: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kessler'S Inc. safety composite

Kessler'S Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Kessler'S Inc.: 3.5 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Kessler'S Inc.'s TCR rose 2.7 from 3.5 in 2016 to 6.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Lemoyne, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/18
  • PHOTO Amick Farms, LLC SC …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amick Farms, LLC SC Processing Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kessler'S Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kessler'S Inc. averages 4.2 TCR (128% of the Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats BLS benchmark).

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

Kessler'S Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=3 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Kessler'S Inc. falls in its industry

509 Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 18 Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, employers in Pennsylvania.

Kessler'S Inc. (31 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kessler'S Inc.
Kessler'S Inc. (31 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kessler'S Inc. has fewer employees than the Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.2 0.0 1 1 0
2020 6.2 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2017 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2016 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · PA · Lemoyne

509 Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 21 employers in Lemoyne, 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 Amick Farms, LLC SC Processing Plant 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Decatur Fresh Plant 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilgrim's Moorefield Fresh Plant 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coastal Processing LLC 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spawn Plant 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caputo & Guest Mushrooms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE COLSC Cocalico Service Center 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenixville Service Building 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR REM Staffing Inc 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lemoyne Karns Food Store 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrisburg Distribution Center - ABARTA Coca Cola Beverages 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrisburg Distribution Center 197 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Office 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR United Producers, Inc. - Cass City 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vtm-470 San Diego 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ontario OR 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Electrical Distributors (Pc3919) 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arbor - Sycamore Sd 427 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2077-Us Dd Nw Livermore Branch 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2077-Us Dd Nw Vallejo Branch 31 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.