Sugar, refined, merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

L & S Sweeteners Inc.

Leola, PA · ~96 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L & S Sweeteners Inc. runs at 590% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sugar, refined, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

L & S Sweeteners Inc.: 13.0 TCR = 590% of Sugar, refined, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L & S Sweeteners Inc. safety composite

L & S Sweeteners Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

TCR Δ

−14.3

2016→2023

L & S Sweeteners Inc. injury rate improved

L & S Sweeteners Inc.'s TCR fell 14.3 from 16.7 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 23.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.7 · 2017=23.3 · 2018=16.0 · 2019=16.5 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Leola, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 590% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #62/68
  • PHOTO Indy-Brook Branch
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 89 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indy-Brook Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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L & S Sweeteners Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L & S Sweeteners Inc. averages 13.0 TCR (590% of the Sugar, refined, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

L & S Sweeteners Inc. TCR series: 2016=16.7 · 2017=23.3 · 2018=16 · 2019=16.5 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where L & S Sweeteners Inc. falls in its industry

1,278 Sugar, refined, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 68 Sugar, refined, merchant whole employers in Pennsylvania.

L & S Sweeteners Inc. (96 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate L & S Sweeteners Inc.
L & S Sweeteners Inc. (96 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

L & S Sweeteners Inc. has more employees than the Sugar, refined, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 2.5 1.2 2 0 0
2022 4.7 4.7 5 0 0
2021 11.3 9.4 12 0 0
2019 16.5 14.4 16 0 0
2018 16.0 11.3 17 0 0
2017 23.3 17.2 22 1 0
2016 16.7 14.5 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · PA · Leola

1,278 Sugar, refined, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 27 employers in Leola, 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 Indy-Brook Branch 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1964-00120245 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chefs Warehouse West Coast LLC- Petaluma 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bigfoot Beverages Newport 13.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc. 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ardmore PA 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zartman 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE G W Peoples Contracting Co., Inc. 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Container Leola 1,565 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eagle River Homes, LLC 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Skyline Homes 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smucker Company 162 FTE
NAT-TCR Home Health Care Professionals - Waconia 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenix DC #087 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Denton DC #086 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Alps A/C and Heating Inc. 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baker Metal Products, Inc 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE AJs 075 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georg Fischer Central Plastics LLC - Dallas 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE ASI Doors, Inc. 96 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, 2021, 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.