Commercial bakeries · Pennsylvania

Pepperidge Farm Downingtown

Downingtown, PA · ~255 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pepperidge Farm Downingtown runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade D.

Pepperidge Farm Downingtown: 5.6 TCR = 169% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pepperidge Farm Downingtown safety composite

Pepperidge Farm Downingtown scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−2.6

2019→2020

Pepperidge Farm Downingtown injury rate improved

Pepperidge Farm Downingtown's TCR fell 2.6 from 6.9 in 2019 to 4.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.9 · 2020=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Downingtown, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #46/63
  • PHOTO ARYZTA - Chicago
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~255 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ARYZTA - Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pepperidge Farm Downingtown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pepperidge Farm Downingtown averages 5.6 TCR (169% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Pepperidge Farm Downingtown TCR series: 2019=6.9 · 2020=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Pepperidge Farm Downingtown falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 63 Commercial bakeries employers in Pennsylvania.

Pepperidge Farm Downingtown (255 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Pepperidge Farm Downingtown
Pepperidge Farm Downingtown (255 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Pepperidge Farm Downingtown has more employees than the Commercial bakeries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2020 4.3 2.4 16 0 0
2019 6.9 3.6 12 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · PA · Downingtown

1,014 Commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 74 employers in Downingtown, 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 ARYZTA - Chicago 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commerce City CO (56th Ave) Depot 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAN LEANDRO CA (WASHINGTON AVE) DEPOT 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MATTOON IL PLANT 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 946-NiSource-Smithfield PA-Cust Serv Ctr 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joe Jurgielewicz & Son LTD 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE Niagara Bottling, LLC - Hazleton 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yuasa Battery Inc. 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downingtown 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Downingtown 050 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pepperidge Farms 281 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foodservice : DOWNINGTOWN 269 FTE
NAT-TCR Agency For Community Treatment Services-Admin 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 372368-Devils Lake Po 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Albea Americas 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Production Plumbing - San Diego 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. - Auburn, NY 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Plant & Corporate 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanford Contractors, Inc. 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer 127 255 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: 2020, 2019. 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.