Chocolate covered candy bars made from purchased chocolate · Pennsylvania

Reese Plant

Hershey, PA · ~692 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Reese Plant runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chocolate covered candy bars made from purchased chocolate workplace, earning a grade B.

Reese Plant: 2.2 TCR = 53% of Chocolate covered candy bars made from purchased chocolate BLS 4.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Reese Plant safety composite

Reese Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

Reese Plant: 1.9 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2018

Reese Plant's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.9 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311352 · Hershey, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 53% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #2/20
  • PHOTO Platter's Chocolate …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~692 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Platter's Chocolate Factory (0.1 TCR gap)

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Reese Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Reese Plant averages 2.2 TCR (53% of the Chocolate covered candy bars made from purchased chocolate BLS benchmark).

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

Reese Plant TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=2 · 2018=2.8 · BLS 4.2

Where Reese Plant falls in its industry

86 Chocolate covered candy bars m establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 20 Chocolate covered candy bars m employers in Pennsylvania.

Reese Plant (692 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Reese Plant
Reese Plant (692 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Reese Plant has more employees than the Chocolate covered candy bars made from p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2018 2.8 2.4 24 0 0
2017 2.0 1.8 17 0 0
2016 1.9 1.7 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311352 · PA · Hershey

86 Chocolate covered candy bars made from purchased chocolate employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 47 employers in Hershey, 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 Platter's Chocolate Factory 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Platter's Chocolates 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HHH 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawaiian Host Candies of LA LLC 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Refining Company 692 FTE
STATE-SIZE GAP2 Fulfillment Center 691 FTE
STATE-SIZE LANCASTER (PALAN) 693 FTE
STATE-SIZE Living Branches 693 FTE
CITY-NEAR A045 - Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center 7,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hersheypark Entertainment Complex 2,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hershey Entertainment Complex 2,682 FTE
CITY-NEAR A021 - Penn State Health Administrative Offices 1,813 FTE
NAT-TCR Bowhead Operations and Maintenance Solutions 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Webb Construction 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-CTBRI7 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Newton HKY 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Upsco Airline Hangar (Kyalh) 692 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kraft Heinz Company Coshocton 692 FTE
NAT-SIZE Axium Plastics New Albany 692 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Oregon University 692 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: 2018, 2017, 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.