Relishes canning · Pennsylvania

Knouse Foods orrtanna

Orrtanna, PA · ~242 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knouse Foods orrtanna runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Relishes canning workplace, earning a grade F.

Knouse Foods orrtanna: 7.5 TCR = 226% of Relishes canning BLS 3.3 · 3y 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 10%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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: 6.1 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2024

Knouse Foods orrtanna's TCR rose 2.9 from 6.1 in 2020 to 9.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.06× 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 7.5 · 226% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #17/26
  • PHOTO Paradise Tomato Kitc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~242 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Paradise Tomato Kitchens, Inc. - Crums Lane (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 7.5 TCR (226% of the Relishes canning BLS benchmark).

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

Knouse Foods orrtanna TCR series: 2020=6.1 · 2021=7.2 · 2024=9 · BLS 3.3

Where Knouse Foods orrtanna falls in its industry

330 Relishes canning establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #17 safest of 26 Relishes canning employers in Pennsylvania.

Knouse Foods orrtanna (242 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 orrtanna
Knouse Foods orrtanna (242 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 Relishes canning 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 9.0 7.9 14 2 0
2021 7.2 4.3 17 5 0
2020 6.1 3.0 11 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · PA · Orrtanna

330 Relishes canning 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 Paradise Tomato Kitchens, Inc. - Crums Lane 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schlotterbeck & Foss 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ottawa Foods Facility 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR POPPIE'S PICKLE PRODUCTS, INC. 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pulse Technologies 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Truck-Lite Co., LLC 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoprite 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE GIANT FOOD STORES 6301 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods - Orrtanna 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bream Orchards Inc 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farm Winery 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Denison 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kahler Grand Hotel 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hibbing Public Utilities 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Connecticut Container Corp 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Power, Inc 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Concrete Pump Partners 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE L&L Painting Co., Inc. 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Administration Building 242 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.

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