Canning fruits and vegetables · Pennsylvania

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna

Orrtanna, PA · ~295 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Canning fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade D.

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna: 4.6 TCR = 141% of Canning fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna safety composite

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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 - Orrtanna: 3.0 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2019

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna's TCR rose 2.6 from 3.0 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 141% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #12/26
  • PHOTO National Fruit Produ…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~295 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: National Fruit Product Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna averages 4.6 TCR (141% 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 - Orrtanna TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=5 · 2018=5 · 2019=5.6 · BLS 3.3

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

330 Canning fruits and vegetables establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #12 safest of 26 Canning fruits and vegetables employers in Pennsylvania.

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna (295 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 - Orrtanna
Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna (295 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna 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 5.6 3.0 15 0 0
2018 5.0 3.7 12 3 0
2017 5.0 4.3 13 2 0
2016 3.0 1.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · PA · Orrtanna

330 Canning fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 6 employers in Orrtanna, 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 National Fruit Product Company 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seneca Foods Corporation-Cambria West 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SFC Gillett 333 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fontana Refresco 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE BlueTriton Brands - Allentown East Facility 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&J 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blair Image Elements - Main 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2024 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods - Orrtanna 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods orrtanna 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bream Orchards Inc 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farm Winery 24 FTE
NAT-TCR New York JP 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Faf Ewr 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Seneca Foods Baraboo 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 206-Algonquin 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE NatureSweet USA LLC 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meridian Subacute Rehab - Wall 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hamilton County CUSD #10 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spaulding Youth Center 295 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.