Confectionery chocolate made from cacao beans · Pennsylvania

R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3

Wyomissing, PA · ~395 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Confectionery chocolate made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade D.

R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3: 6.1 TCR = 145% of Confectionery chocolate made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 safety composite

R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3: 5.4 → 13.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2022

R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3's TCR rose 8.3 from 5.4 in 2016 to 13.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Wyomissing, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 145% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #18/23
  • PHOTO Barry Callebaut Chic…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 119 inj
  • SIZE ~395 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing (0.1 TCR gap)

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R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 averages 6.1 TCR (145% of the Confectionery chocolate made from cacao beans BLS benchmark).

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

R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=4.1 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=13.6 · BLS 4.2

Where R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 falls in its industry

65 Confectionery chocolate made f establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 23 Confectionery chocolate made f employers in Pennsylvania.

R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 (395 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3
R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 (395 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 has more employees than the Confectionery chocolate made from cacao median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2022 13.6 8.1 36 1 0
2021 4.9 3.7 9 8 0
2019 4.1 3.3 16 0 0
2018 2.8 2.6 12 0 0
2017 5.7 5.2 24 0 0
2016 5.4 4.4 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · PA · Wyomissing

65 Confectionery chocolate made from cacao beans employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 46 employers in Wyomissing, 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 Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raaka Chocolate, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR R. M. Palmer Company - Building #1 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dandelion Chocolate 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carlisle Plant 395 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2059 395 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waverly Heights, Ltd. 395 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brayman Construction Corporation 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR REN750-752 Corp Support 723 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building 3 623 FTE
CITY-NEAR PENN Entertainment, Inc. 596 FTE
CITY-NEAR THE HIGHLANDS AT WYOMISSING 358 FTE
NAT-TCR CA_Perris_3300 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 957 - Rapid City 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR BOI-ODFL 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora St. Lukes South Shore 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE GCT Bayonne LP 395 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC 395 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anchor Coupling Menominee 395 FTE
NAT-SIZE GYSNKYBR - AT&T Mobility Services LLC 395 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: 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.