Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Knouse Foods Biglerville

Biglerville, PA · ~145 workers · 2 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

Knouse Foods Biglerville runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Knouse Foods Biglerville: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knouse Foods Biglerville safety composite

Knouse Foods Biglerville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Knouse Foods Biglerville: 3.2 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2021

Knouse Foods Biglerville's TCR rose 2.0 from 3.2 in 2020 to 5.2 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Biglerville, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #11/26
  • PHOTO Seneca Foods Corpora…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seneca Foods Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knouse Foods Biglerville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knouse Foods Biglerville averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Knouse Foods Biglerville TCR series: 2020=3.2 · 2021=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Knouse Foods Biglerville falls in its industry

330 Beverages, fruit and vegetable establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 26 Beverages, fruit and vegetable employers in Pennsylvania.

Knouse Foods Biglerville (145 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Knouse Foods Biglerville
Knouse Foods Biglerville (145 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Knouse Foods Biglerville has more employees than the Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 5.2 3.9 7 1 0
2020 3.2 3.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · PA · Biglerville

330 Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 11 employers in Biglerville, 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 Seneca Foods Corporation 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bush Brothers & Company 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Portion Control Jacksonville 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Pickles Manufacturing LLC 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE SXL Mariner East Project- CBI Services, LLC 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Cumberland PA Branch 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Climatech, Inc. 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bake Rite Rolls 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR International Paper Biglerville Container 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Biglerville 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods - Biglerville 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biglerville,PA - 204 81 FTE
NAT-TCR Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC - Berea 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Carthage Spring #0001 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - St. Louis O'Fallon, IL 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fidelitone - General Mills 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Foldcraft Co. - Location Kenyon, MN 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE 108204-Washington Dc Insp Svc Division 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE PlyGem Extrusions 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barilla - America NY 145 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.