TCR, interpreted
About average
4.4 avg TCR
Industry profile · NAICS 311352
Workplace injury rates across 87 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 86 establishments with a credible rate.
TCR, interpreted
About average
4.4 avg TCR
The industry picture
The 86 rated employers in Fudge, chocolate, made from purchased chocolate average 4.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.0 times the BLS national benchmark of 4.2.
ITA inventory (87) and injury totals cover every reporting establishment; the average TCR is the rated subset only. Corpus rank matches /rankings/most-dangerous-industries (≥100 rated employers). BLS IIF is a separate survey population, see Methodology → Three Populations.
Industry-average TCR has risen across this span (3.8 → 5.2) · NAICS 311352
The Fudge, chocolate, made from purchased chocolate sector (NAICS 311352) encompasses 87 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 2,492 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window. The industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year is computed on the 86 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology). Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 4.2 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 4.4 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.
The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Fudge, chocolate, made from purchased chocolate that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.
| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Production | South San Francisco, CA | F | 17.9 |
| Bernard foods | Evanston, IL | F | 15.0 |
| Pecan Deluxe Candy Company | Dallas, TX | F | 10.9 |
| Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc. | Gardena, CA | F | 10.6 |
| Enstrom Candies Inc | Grand Junction, CO | F | 9.2 |
| Wolfgang Operations LLC - LGV | York, PA | F | 8.9 |
| 3241_6231 | Cleveland, OH | F | 8.7 |
| Palmer Candy Company Bluff St | Sioux City, IA | F | 8.5 |
| Brad Barry Company Ltd. | Chino, CA | D | 8.1 |
| Linette Quality Chocolates | Womelsdorf, PA | D | 7.9 |
| Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75 | Sioux City, IA | D | 7.7 |
| Malley's Chocolates | Cleveland, OH | D | 6.9 |
| Sanders | Clinton Township, MI | D | 6.5 |
| Palmer Candy Company - HWY 75 | Sioux City, IA | D | 6.5 |
| Andes Candies LLC | Delavan, WI | D | 6.5 |
| The Warrell Corporation | Camp Hill, PA | D | 6.2 |
| Kiva Manufacturing Inc. | Oakland, CA | D | 6.2 |
| Leclerc Foods Nutrition | Phoenix, AZ | D | 6.0 |
| Leclerc Foods USA | Montgomery, PA | D | 5.7 |
| Kilwin's Quality Confections | Petoskey, MI | D | 5.6 |
| Ashers Chocolate Co. | Souderton, PA | D | 5.6 |
| Chase Candy Co | Saint Joseph, Mo, MO | D | 5.5 |
| Edward Marc Chocolatier LLC | Trafford, PA | D | 5.4 |
| Palmer Candy Company - Bluff | Sioux City, IA | D | 5.3 |
| Chester A Asher | Souderton, PA | D | 5.3 |
| TreeHouse Foods, Inc. | Womelsdorf, PA | D | 5.2 |
| eatingEVOLVED, LLC | Hauppauge, NY | C | 5.0 |
| Wolfgang Operations, LLC | York, PA | C | 5.0 |
| Edward Marc Brands, Inc. | Pittsburgh, PA | C | 5.0 |
| Kerry Ingredients | New Century, KS | C | 4.9 |
| Leclerc Foods Tennessee | Kingsport, TN | C | 4.9 |
| Pine-Lake Champlain Chocolates | Burlington, VT | C | 4.9 |
| Sweet Candy Company | Salt Lake City, UT | C | 4.8 |
| Iola | Iola, KS | C | 4.7 |
| Chocolove - 1180 S 57th Court | Boulder, CO | C | 4.7 |
| Abdallah Candies Inc | Apple Valley, MN | C | 4.7 |
| Creative Snacks Co. | High Point, NC | C | 4.7 |
| Thompson Brands LLC | Meriden, CT | C | 4.6 |
| Fannie May Confections Brands | North Canton, OH | C | 4.4 |
| Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store | Sioux City, IA | C | 4.4 |
| Arway Confections Inc | Chicago, IL | C | 4.2 |
| HHLA | Honolulu, HI | C | 4.0 |
| Boyer-Lake Champlain Chocolates | Williston, VT | C | 3.7 |
| Union City, CA | Union City, CA | C | 3.4 |
| Anthony Thomas Candy Co. | Columbus, OH | C | 3.4 |
| Ashers Chocolates | Lewistown, PA | C | 3.4 |
| Gardners Candies | Tyrone, PA | C | 3.4 |
| Laymon Candy Company, Inc. | San Bernardino, CA | B | 3.4 |
| CD Investors, LLC/Downtown ICT | Wichita, KS | B | 3.3 |
| The Hershey Company - Reese Plant | Hershey, PA | B | 3.3 |
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Fudge, chocolate, made from purchased chocolate: nearest NAICS cohorts by rated-subset average TCR and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-industry neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Nearest industries by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.4 here).
Nearest industries by reporting employer count (87 here).
Safety grades are a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA and BLS data, not an official OSHA rating. Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Across 86 OSHA-reporting establishments with a credible rate, Fudge, chocolate, made from purchased chocolate averages 4.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers per year (Total Case Rate, 2016-2024). The BLS national benchmark for this NAICS code is 4.2.
Fudge, chocolate, made from purchased chocolate has fewer than 100 rated employers, below the case-volume floor for the national industry ranking.
87 establishments report to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application under this NAICS code, of which 86 have a credible enough filing history to carry a rated average TCR.
Working in Fudge, chocolate, made from purchased chocolate?
This sector averages 4.4 against a BLS benchmark of 4.2 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.
Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.
Across 86 OSHA-reporting establishments with a credible rate, Fudge, chocolate, made from purchased chocolate averages 4.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers per year (Total Case Rate, 2016-2024). The BLS national benchmark for this NAICS code is 4.2.
Fudge, chocolate, made from purchased chocolate has fewer than 100 rated employers, below the case-volume floor for the national industry ranking.
87 establishments report to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application under this NAICS code, of which 86 have a credible enough filing history to carry a rated average TCR.