Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Vita Line Products

Hazle Township, PA · ~115 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vita Line Products runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Vita Line Products: 6.6 TCR = 169% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vita Line Products safety composite

Vita Line Products scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.4

2018→2019

Vita Line Products injury rate improved

Vita Line Products's TCR fell 3.4 from 8.3 in 2018 to 4.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.3 · 2019=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Hazle Township, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #18/23
  • PHOTO Wellness Pet LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wellness Pet LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vita Line Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vita Line Products averages 6.6 TCR (169% of the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vita Line Products TCR series: 2018=8.3 · 2019=4.9 · BLS 3.9

Where Vita Line Products falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 23 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Pennsylvania.

Vita Line Products (115 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Vita Line Products
Vita Line Products (115 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Vita Line Products has more employees than the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2019 4.9 2.1 7 0 0
2018 8.3 7.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · PA · Hazle Township

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 36 employers in Hazle Township, 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 Wellness Pet LLC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crete Core Ingredients 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR IPMPC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Three Dog Brands - Topping 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE WNDOB Windsor Office Building 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penn Hills Service Center 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael F. Ronca & Sons, Inc. 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hazleton Distribution Center 972 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Hershey Co Hazleton 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9720 633 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hershey - Hazleton Plant 533 FTE
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 1671 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 2645 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 1765 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Senior Care of Hewitt 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0029 3138 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0025 2815 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0025 1968 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0045 8111 115 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.