Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Knouse Foods - Orrtanna

Orrtanna, PA · ~248 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knouse Foods - Orrtanna runs at 211% 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 - Orrtanna: 7.0 TCR = 211% of Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knouse Foods - Orrtanna safety composite

Knouse Foods - Orrtanna scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 - Orrtanna: 4.6 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2023

Knouse Foods - Orrtanna's TCR rose 4.7 from 4.6 in 2022 to 9.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 211% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #15/26
  • PHOTO Giovanni Food Co Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~248 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Giovanni Food Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knouse Foods - Orrtanna in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knouse Foods - Orrtanna averages 7.0 TCR (211% 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 - Orrtanna TCR series: 2022=4.6 · 2023=9.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Knouse Foods - Orrtanna falls in its industry

330 Juices, fruit or vegetable, fr establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #15 safest of 26 Juices, fruit or vegetable, fr employers in Pennsylvania.

Knouse Foods - Orrtanna (248 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 - Orrtanna
Knouse Foods - Orrtanna (248 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Knouse Foods - Orrtanna 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 9.3 7.3 22 1 0
2022 4.6 3.2 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · PA · Orrtanna

330 Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing 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 Giovanni Food Co Inc 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calpack Foods 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gielow Pickles, Inc 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR True Fresh 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Little Leaf Farms PA 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Garden 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE ShopRite of Fox Street 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weaver Markets Inc 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods orrtanna 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bream Orchards Inc 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farm Winery 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Massana Construction 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TMC Industries Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Custom Distribution 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Strauss Brands Inc 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd. 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Roofing Services, LLC 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tektronix, Inc (19) 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boreal Ridge Corporation 248 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.