Ice cream cones manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Norse Dairy Systems

Somerset, PA · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norse Dairy Systems runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ice cream cones manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Norse Dairy Systems: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Ice cream cones manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norse Dairy Systems safety composite

Norse Dairy Systems 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.34 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

Norse Dairy Systems: 0.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2019

Norse Dairy Systems's TCR rose 8.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311821 · Somerset, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO Deep Foods Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Deep Foods Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Norse Dairy Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norse Dairy Systems averages 4.2 TCR (128% of the Ice cream cones manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Norse Dairy Systems TCR series: 2016=0 · 2019=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Norse Dairy Systems falls in its industry

166 Ice cream cones manufacturing establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 14 Ice cream cones manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Norse Dairy Systems (50 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Norse Dairy Systems
Norse Dairy Systems (50 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Norse Dairy Systems has fewer employees than the Ice cream cones manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2019 8.4 6.3 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311821 · PA · Somerset

166 Ice cream cones manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 53 employers in Somerset, 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 Deep Foods Inc 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Dolce Vita 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bud's Best Cookies 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joy Cone Company 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE To-Jo Food Products Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kulp Family Dairy LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maronda Homes Inc of Pennsylvania 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Home Remodeling Pros of Central PA 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Somerset 664 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somerset Hospital 617 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeler Fleet Solutions - Somerset 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6795-86022B0199 332 FTE
NAT-TCR Fire District 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR VRC Andover 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR UMS Green Bay 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Edge Boyne 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Flagstaff 24124 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plastics Color Corporation of NC 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advance Industrial Maintenance & Machine, Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henick-Lane Inc. Office 50 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, 2016. 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.