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

Zeigler Bros. Inc.

Gardners, PA · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zeigler Bros. Inc. runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Zeigler Bros. Inc.: 2.0 TCR = 52% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zeigler Bros. Inc. safety composite

Zeigler Bros. Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Zeigler Bros. Inc.: 0.0 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2024

Zeigler Bros. Inc.'s TCR rose 6.1 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 52% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #9/42
  • PHOTO Belstra Milling Comp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Belstra Milling Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zeigler Bros. Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zeigler Bros. Inc. averages 2.0 TCR (52% 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

Zeigler Bros. Inc. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Zeigler Bros. Inc. falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #9 safest of 42 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Pennsylvania.

Zeigler Bros. Inc. (38 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Zeigler Bros. Inc.
Zeigler Bros. Inc. (38 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Zeigler Bros. Inc. has more employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m median and a lower 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 6.1 3.1 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · PA · Gardners

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 · 8 employers in Gardners, 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 Belstra Milling Company, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quincy Feed Plant 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hamlin Feed Mill 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kalmbach Feeds, Inc. 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kaolin Mushroom Farms - M&J Facility 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dairy 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc - Elizabethtown 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Risser's Poultry Handling Services, LLC 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rice Fruit Company 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Gardners 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR John B. Peters Inc. 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR O'Malley Wood Products 56 FTE
NAT-TCR Liepold Farms 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Toolcraft, Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ATI Forged Products - Cudahy Operations 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ABC Automotive Systems Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alstom Kanona Overhaul Facility 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE HB1 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roughrider Electric Cooperative, Inc. 38 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. 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.