Canning fruits and vegetables · Pennsylvania

Knouse Foods Chambersburg

Chambersburg, PA · ~191 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knouse Foods Chambersburg runs at 299% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Canning fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade F.

Knouse Foods Chambersburg: 9.9 TCR = 299% of Canning fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 3y 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 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Knouse Foods Chambersburg held a steady TCR band

Knouse Foods Chambersburg's TCR held near 0.3 from 10.4 in 2020 to 10.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.4 · 2021=8.5 · 2024=10.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 299% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #23/26
  • PHOTO Nekter Juice Bar Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~191 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nekter Juice Bar Inc (0.4 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 9.9 TCR (299% of the Canning fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Knouse Foods Chambersburg TCR series: 2020=10.4 · 2021=8.5 · 2024=10.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Knouse Foods Chambersburg falls in its industry

330 Canning fruits and vegetables establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #23 safest of 26 Canning fruits and vegetables employers in Pennsylvania.

Knouse Foods Chambersburg (191 employees, TCR 9.9) 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 (191 employees, TCR 9.9) 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 Canning fruits and vegetables 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
2024 10.7 9.5 17 0 0
2021 8.5 5.4 13 6 0
2020 10.4 10.0 23 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · PA · Chambersburg

330 Canning fruits and vegetables 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 Nekter Juice Bar Inc 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GLK Foods, LLC 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Love Beets Production 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Paw Paw, Mi 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Structural Services, Inc. 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Multi-Plastics Extrusions, Inc. Hazleton, PA. 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan Advanced Ceramics - Certech Inc. 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gwynedd Manufacturing Inc 191 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 Rapid Delivery Solutions, Inc. 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 990 Savannah DC 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Goldkamp Enterprises 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bainbridge Island Health & Rehabilitation 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Park Construction Company 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mastercraft Industries Inc 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE BME Fire Trucks 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dometic 191 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, 2021, 2020. 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.