Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing

Hanover, PA · ~543 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing: 2.3 TCR = 55% of Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing safety composite

Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing: 1.5 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2018

Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.5 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Hanover, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 55% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #11/50
  • PHOTO TreeHouse Private Br…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~543 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TreeHouse Private Brands Inc (Visalia) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing averages 2.3 TCR (55% of the Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=2.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing falls in its industry

253 Pretzels (except soft) manufac establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 50 Pretzels (except soft) manufac employers in Pennsylvania.

Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing (543 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing
Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing (543 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing has more employees than the Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2018 2.2 1.2 9 2 0
2017 3.1 1.7 14 2 0
2016 1.5 1.2 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · PA · Hanover

253 Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 149 employers in Hanover, 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 TreeHouse Private Brands Inc (Visalia) 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hayden Valley Foods 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KIRKWOOD PLANT 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SuperPufft Snacks USA, Inc. 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Philips Reedsville 1 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan Truck Body LLC MPA 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8401/3070 KAO/Keystone Exeter 544 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crescent Park Corporation - E1 544 FTE
CITY-NEAR CARTER DOOR & MILLWORK HUB 389 4,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanover Manufacturing Campus 1,446 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hanover 1,090 FTE
CITY-NEAR Snyders-Lance, Inc.- Hanover Manufacturing Facility 850 FTE
NAT-TCR Ottawa Cooperative Association 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0070 - Lubbock, Tx 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wisenbaker Builder Services - DAL 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Continental Industries Broken Arrow 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3rd Street Clinic 543 FTE
NAT-SIZE BorgWarner 543 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCS Wireless, LLC 543 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anaren Microwave, Inc 543 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.