General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Pennsylvania

68-LEHIGHTON

Lehighton, PA · ~184 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

68-LEHIGHTON runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

68-LEHIGHTON: 5.9 TCR = 131% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

68-LEHIGHTON safety composite

68-LEHIGHTON scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.1

2016→2018

68-LEHIGHTON injury rate improved

68-LEHIGHTON's TCR fell 2.1 from 7.0 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.0 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Lehighton, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 131% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #50/120
  • PHOTO DSP
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DSP (0.0 TCR gap)

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68-LEHIGHTON in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 68-LEHIGHTON averages 5.9 TCR (131% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

68-LEHIGHTON TCR series: 2016=7 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where 68-LEHIGHTON falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 120 General freight trucking, long employers in Pennsylvania.

68-LEHIGHTON (184 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 68-LEHIGHTON
68-LEHIGHTON (184 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

68-LEHIGHTON has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2018 4.9 4.9 11 0 0
2017 5.9 5.9 15 0 0
2016 7.0 7.0 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · PA · Lehighton

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 34 employers in Lehighton, 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 DSP 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Freight 050 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NJ-Keasbey-Bulk Operating Center 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Bernardino CA FXFE-SBO 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Massaro Construction Group 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Forge PA 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harmony Biosciences, LLC 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Electrical Material Company 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gnaden Huetten Memorial Hospital 710 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Mountain Hospital 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2169 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2169 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Main Office 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ghs Eye Institute 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Terminix Service, Inc. Greenville North 63- 3 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bushwick Metals LLC- BPT 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE DeWal Industries 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE OPC Greater Orlando Marketing 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE thyssenkrupp Industrial Services - Toledo 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omaha - 70-01 184 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: 2018, 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.