Industry profile · NAICS 311351

Liquor, chocolate, made from cacao beans

Workplace injury rates across 66 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

66
Employers
4.0
Avg TCR
4.2
BLS benchmark
1,841
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Liquor, chocolate, made from cacao beans average 4.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 4.2.

4.0
avg TCR · reporting employers
4.2
BLS national benchmark
66
employers reporting
1,841
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Liquor, chocolate, made from cacao beans Safety Data Reveals

The Liquor, chocolate, made from cacao beans sector (NAICS 311351) encompasses 66 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 1,841 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. 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 4.0 is below 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 Liquor, chocolate, made from cacao beans that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Carlyle Cocoa Swedesboro Swedesboro, NJ F 12.7
Barry Callebaut American Canyon Manufacturing American Canyon, CA F 11.2
Barry Callebaut USA LLC American Canyon, CA F 11.0
St Albans Vermont Site St Albans, VT F 10.9
Marich Confectionery Hollister, CA F 10.6
R. M. Palmer Company - Building #6 Reading, PA D 7.7
Seroogy's Chocolates De Pere, WI D 7.3
Mona Lisa Food products/Barry Callebaut USA Hendersonville, NC D 7.3
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc Hazleton, PA D 7.3
Building 3 Wyomissing, PA D 7.1
Gertrude Hawk Chocolates Dunmore, PA D 6.5
Dandelion Chocolate San Francisco, CA D 6.4
R. M. Palmer Company - Building #1 West Reading, PA D 6.4
Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing Chicago, IL D 6.2
R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 Wyomissing, PA D 6.1
Raaka Chocolate, Inc. Brooklyn, NY D 5.9
Sconza Candy Company Oakdale, CA D 5.7
Barry Callebaut US - PennChoc Pennsauken, NJ D 5.1
Barry Callebaut Eddyston, PA C 5.0
Seroogy's Chocolates- Ashwaubenon Green Bay, WI C 4.9
Godiva Chocolatier Reading, PA C 4.7
290 Boyer Circle Williston, VT C 4.7
Gertrude Hawk Ingredients Throop, PA C 4.3
Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI C 4.2
Blommer Chocolate Chicago Chicago, IL C 4.0
Cargill Milwaukee, WI C 4.0
750 Pine Street Burlingoton, VT C 3.9
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - Mount Joy Mount Joy, PA C 3.9
Blommer Chocolate East Greenville East Greenville, PA C 3.8
Blommer Chocolate Company - EG East Greenville, PA C 3.7
Barry Callebaut, USA - Saint Albans Saint Albans, VT C 3.6
Lindt & Sprungli (USA) Inc. Stratham, NH C 3.6
Spanish Springs Spanish Springs, NV C 3.5
Barry Callebaut Eddystone, PA C 3.4
Nestle Burlington, WI B 3.3
Barry Callebaut- Mona Lisa Hendersonville, NC B 3.2
Compact Industries, Inc St. Charles, IL B 3.0
Ferrero (Fervalue) Franklin Park, Illinois, IL B 2.9
Blommer Chocolate Union City Union City, CA B 2.6
Dobla Group USA Duluth, GA B 2.4
Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location Columbus, IN B 2.3
Hershey Chocolate of Virginia, LLC Stuarts Draft, VA B 2.3
Tru Food MFG Pittsburgh, PA B 2.2
Hershey's Chocolate - Robinson Robinson, IL B 2.2
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - West Lincoln Lititz, PA A 2.1
Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate West Lincoln Lititz, PA A 2.0
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate Milwaukee, WI A 2.0
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - Wilbur Retail Store Lititz, PA A 1.9
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA - Hazleton Hazle Township, PA A 1.8
Endangered Species Chocolate Indianapolis, IN A 1.6
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This sector averages 4.0 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.