Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Knouse Foods - Chambersburg

Chambersburg, PA · ~207 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knouse Foods - Chambersburg runs at 276% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Knouse Foods - Chambersburg: 9.1 TCR = 276% of Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knouse Foods - Chambersburg safety composite

Knouse Foods - Chambersburg scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

−0.5

2022→2023

Knouse Foods - Chambersburg injury rate improved

Knouse Foods - Chambersburg's TCR fell 0.5 from 9.4 in 2022 to 8.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.4 · 2023=8.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 276% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #22/26
  • PHOTO hanover Foods Canning
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~207 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: hanover Foods Canning (0.1 TCR gap)

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Knouse Foods - Chambersburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knouse Foods - Chambersburg averages 9.1 TCR (276% of the Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Knouse Foods - Chambersburg TCR series: 2022=9.4 · 2023=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Knouse Foods - Chambersburg falls in its industry

330 Juices, fruit or vegetable, fr establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #22 safest of 26 Juices, fruit or vegetable, fr employers in Pennsylvania.

Knouse Foods - Chambersburg (207 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 - Chambersburg
Knouse Foods - Chambersburg (207 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Knouse Foods - Chambersburg has more employees than the Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manuf 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
2023 8.9 8.4 21 0 0
2022 9.4 8.9 21 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · PA · Chambersburg

330 Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 144 employers in Chambersburg, 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 hanover Foods Canning 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell-Carter Foods LLC 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oh Snap! Pickling Co., LLC 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AM Braswell Jr. Food Company 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maronda, Inc. 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE One Penn Center - Ste 110,200,300 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Pennsylvania - York 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chambersburg Hospital 2,034 FTE
CITY-NEAR WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0589 - Chambersburg PA DC 1,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0589 - Chambersburg DC 1,049 FTE
NAT-TCR MN - Fairmont 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR New York PDC 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brandywine Living at Mahwah 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Raleys 125-Truckee 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Newburgh #198 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homesmart Services, LLC 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando Fl Plant 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Naturex Inc 207 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. 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.