Potato chips manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA

Berwick, PA · ~706 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA: 4.0 TCR = 98% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA safety composite

Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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)
D 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA: 2.3 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2020

Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA's TCR rose 3.9 from 2.3 in 2016 to 6.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Berwick, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 98% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #26/50
  • PHOTO El-Matador
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 80 inj
  • SIZE ~706 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: El-Matador (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA averages 4.0 TCR (98% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=3.5 · 2020=6.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #26 safest of 50 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA (706 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA
Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA (706 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA has more employees than the Potato chips 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
2020 6.2 4.1 33 12 0
2017 3.5 2.4 25 1 0
2016 2.3 1.6 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · PA · Berwick

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 41 employers in Berwick, 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 El-Matador 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rudolph Foods Lima Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 040 Transportation Nottingham 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shearer's Foods - WTR 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Interstate Solutions LLC 707 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-1449 708 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0961 704 FTE
STATE-SIZE Memorial Hospital 704 FTE
CITY-NEAR Susquehanna Nuclear 1,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC6 DC6 BERWICK PA 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC6 397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berwick Offray LLC - Bow Plant - Berwick, PA 269 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 1122 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR FI - Palm Beaches, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Spanish Fork 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 756 Corona, Ca 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Visiting Nurses Home Care 706 FTE
NAT-SIZE Framingham R&D 706 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie Band Casino & Resort 706 FTE
NAT-SIZE District 12 706 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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