Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill

Lancaster, PA · ~34 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill: 3.9 TCR = 100% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill safety composite

Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.03 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.7

2016→2024

Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill injury rate improved

Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill's TCR fell 9.7 from 11.8 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.8 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=6.0 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Lancaster, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 100% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #18/42
  • PHOTO Statesville Feed Mill
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Statesville Feed Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill averages 3.9 TCR (100% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill TCR series: 2016=11.8 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=6 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.9

Where Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 42 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Pennsylvania.

Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill (34 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill
Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill (34 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Wenger Feeds - Hempfield Mill has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2023 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2022 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2018 6.0 0.0 1 1 0
2017 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2016 11.8 2.9 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · PA · Lancaster

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 450 employers in Lancaster, 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 Statesville Feed Mill 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Storm Lake Turkey FM 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vita Plus - Gagetown 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Livingston 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Didden Greenhouse 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Dairy 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.W. Sauder Inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Health, LGH Hospital 7,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR LGHealth 7,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Hospital 6,528 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Medical Group 1,436 FTE
NAT-TCR Quabbin Wire & Cable Co., Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR THK Rhythm North America 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shepherd Center 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1487 Hin60 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Polco Metal Finishing 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodland Wood Preservers, Ltd 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 146 West Wichita 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valor Contracting 34 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.