Baking chocolate made from purchased chocolate · Pennsylvania

The Hershey Company - Reese Plant

Hershey, PA · ~749 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Hershey Company - Reese Plant runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Baking chocolate made from purchased chocolate workplace, earning a grade B.

The Hershey Company - Reese Plant: 3.3 TCR = 77% of Baking chocolate made from purchased chocolate BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Hershey Company - Reese Plant safety composite

The Hershey Company - Reese Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

The Hershey Company - Reese Plant: 2.9 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2020

The Hershey Company - Reese Plant's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.9 in 2019 to 3.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.93× 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 3.3 · 77% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #8/20
  • PHOTO CD Investors, LLC/Do…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~749 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CD Investors, LLC/Downtown ICT (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Hershey Company - Reese Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Hershey Company - Reese Plant averages 3.3 TCR (77% of the Baking chocolate made from purchased chocolate BLS benchmark).

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

The Hershey Company - Reese Plant TCR series: 2019=2.9 · 2020=3.6 · BLS 4.2

Where The Hershey Company - Reese Plant falls in its industry

86 Baking chocolate made from pur establishments

Safer than 57% 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 #8 safest of 20 Baking chocolate made from pur employers in Pennsylvania.

The Hershey Company - Reese Plant (749 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 The Hershey Company - Reese Plant
The Hershey Company - Reese Plant (749 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7

The Hershey Company - Reese Plant has more employees than the Baking chocolate made from purchased cho 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
2020 3.6 3.0 29 1 0
2019 2.9 2.2 23 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311352 · PA · Hershey

86 Baking chocolate 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 CD Investors, LLC/Downtown ICT 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Devon's Chocolates 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laymon Candy Company, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardners Candies 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agency with Choice 749 FTE
STATE-SIZE 135 HARRISBURG 751 FTE
STATE-SIZE Global Specialty Fulfillment : UPA1 751 FTE
STATE-SIZE WTC 752 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 Legacy Air, Inc. Denver 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Just Save #248 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Arthur 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Design Build Fire Protection of WI Inc 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phillips 66 Lake Charles Manufacturing Complex 749 FTE
NAT-SIZE HQ 749 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anixter- Glenview 749 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Health Ensemble 749 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.