Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Y&S Candies

Lancaster, PA · ~616 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Y&S Candies runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Y&S Candies: 6.1 TCR = 146% of Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Y&S Candies safety composite

Y&S Candies scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Y&S Candies: 4.9 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2019

Y&S Candies's TCR rose 2.5 from 4.9 in 2017 to 7.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Lancaster, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 146% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO CBI
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 63 inj
  • SIZE ~616 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CBI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Y&S Candies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Y&S Candies averages 6.1 TCR (146% of the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Y&S Candies TCR series: 2017=4.9 · 2019=7.4 · BLS 4.2

Where Y&S Candies falls in its industry

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #4 safest of 5 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m employers in Pennsylvania.

Y&S Candies (616 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Y&S Candies
Y&S Candies (616 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Y&S Candies has more employees than the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturi median and a higher 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
2019 7.4 5.1 41 1 0
2017 4.9 2.8 22 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · PA · Lancaster

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, 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 CBI 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Gold Foods USA LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primrose Candy Company 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Company 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lighthouse Electric Company, Inc. 616 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweet St. Desserts 616 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Valley Hospital 616 FTE
STATE-SIZE Presbyterian SeniorCare 616 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 4769-6093-West Elm 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Golf 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2146 - Tampa Commercial 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MRP South Hill, LLC 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Franchise Operations, Inc. dba Burger King 616 FTE
NAT-SIZE Support Center 616 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stratford (Ctstr) 616 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airport 616 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, 2017. 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.