Canning fruits and vegetables · Pennsylvania

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg

Chambersburg, PA · ~197 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg runs at 317% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Canning fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade F.

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg: 10.5 TCR = 317% of Canning fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg safety composite

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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 Coop, Inc - Chambersburg: 3.0 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2019

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg's TCR rose 7.0 from 3.0 in 2016 to 10.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 317% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #25/26
  • PHOTO Knouse Foods Coop, I…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~197 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Gardners (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg averages 10.5 TCR (317% 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 Coop, Inc - Chambersburg TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=11.4 · 2018=17.3 · 2019=10 · BLS 3.3

Where Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg falls in its industry

330 Canning fruits and vegetables establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #25 safest of 26 Canning fruits and vegetables employers in Pennsylvania.

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg (197 employees, TCR 10.5) 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 Coop, Inc - Chambersburg
Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg (197 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - 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
2019 10.0 5.9 13 4 0
2018 17.3 6.2 13 18 0
2017 11.4 9.0 17 2 0
2016 3.0 2.5 6 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 Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Gardners 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverside Plant 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GLK Foods, LLC 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nekter Juice Bar Inc 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Holyoke Massachusetts 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE North American Packaging LLC. dba Econo-Pak 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rehrig Pacific Company Erie 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydro Mountain Top 197 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 Sherwood YMCA Child Development Center 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR GULU 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Maintenance 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pride Manchester 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ASPIRO, INC - Dousman 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Marco Island Beach Resort & Spa 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE MIL 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ramey-Estep Homes, Inc. 197 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: 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.