Processed meats manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Quaker Maid Meats, Inc

Reading, PA · ~133 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quaker Maid Meats, Inc runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Quaker Maid Meats, Inc: 2.9 TCR = 89% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quaker Maid Meats, Inc safety composite

Quaker Maid Meats, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Quaker Maid Meats, Inc: 3.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

Quaker Maid Meats, Inc's TCR rose 1.4 from 3.0 in 2018 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Reading, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 89% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #7/37
  • PHOTO Smithfield-Grayson
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield-Grayson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quaker Maid Meats, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quaker Maid Meats, Inc averages 2.9 TCR (89% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Quaker Maid Meats, Inc TCR series: 2018=3 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Quaker Maid Meats, Inc falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 70% 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 #7 safest of 37 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Quaker Maid Meats, Inc (133 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Quaker Maid Meats, Inc
Quaker Maid Meats, Inc (133 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Quaker Maid Meats, Inc has fewer employees than the Processed meats manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 4.4 2.6 4 1 0
2023 2.1 2.1 3 0 0
2022 2.3 0.8 1 2 0
2018 3.0 0.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · PA · Reading

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, 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 Smithfield-Grayson 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield Foods Springfield MA 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charter Homes & Neighborhoods 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scenic Ridge Company 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction Masters Services, LLC. 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE FM Browns Sons Inc. Sinking Spring 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR Chiyoda USA Corporation 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Modern Plumbing Industries, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR WEG Electric Corp 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Opelousas Health Care Properties, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Monroe, OH - Gateway Blvd 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Old Faithful Beverage Company 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mission Valley Nursing and Transitional Care 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nexion Health Management Inc 133 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, 2023, 2022, 2018. 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.