Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc.

Reading, PA · ~62 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc.: 6.3 TCR = 153% of Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. safety composite

Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2017→2021

Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. injury rate improved

Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.6 from 8.6 in 2017 to 6.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.6 · 2018=12.4 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 153% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #36/50
  • PHOTO Praters Foods (Lubbo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Praters Foods (Lubbock) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. averages 6.3 TCR (153% 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

Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. TCR series: 2017=8.6 · 2018=12.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=6 · BLS 4.1

Where Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. falls in its industry

253 Pretzels (except soft) manufac establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #36 safest of 50 Pretzels (except soft) manufac employers in Pennsylvania.

Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. (62 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc.
Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. (62 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. has fewer employees than the Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing median and a higher 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
2021 6.0 1.2 5 0 0
2020 4.3 2.8 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 12.4 8.3 5 1 0
2017 8.6 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · PA · Reading

253 Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, 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 Praters Foods (Lubbock) 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 3 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dot's Velva 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aaron Thomas Company Mendenhall 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Specialty Egg 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGC Flat Glass 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.S. Cumby 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poole Anderson Construction 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR Spreckels 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Children's Village 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Stamford Hotel 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Casa Pools 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northern Lakes Community Mental Health-C 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tsh - Bc 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patterson Logistics Services 6 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Granada-Huntley-East Chain I.S.D. # 2536 62 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.