The Hershey Company - Lancaster Facility

Safety Insights for The Hershey Company - Lancaster Facility

The Hershey Company - Lancaster Facility operates an establishment with approximately 605 full-time equivalent workers in LANCASTER, PA, classified under the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing industry (NAICS 311340). Across 4 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 94 recordable injuries, 0 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the C letter grade (Average Safety Record).

Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 4.2 for Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing, The Hershey Company - Lancaster Facility's workforce experiences 95% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR below the benchmark signals that controls, training, or automation may be outperforming peers.

Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 4 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating The Hershey Company - Lancaster Facility as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.