Canvas bags manufacturing · Pennsylvania

A. Rifkin Co

Wilkes-Barre, PA · ~65 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A. Rifkin Co runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Canvas bags manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

A. Rifkin Co: 4.5 TCR = 135% of Canvas bags manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A. Rifkin Co safety composite

A. Rifkin Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2021→2024

A. Rifkin Co injury rate improved

A. Rifkin Co's TCR fell 1.5 from 4.9 in 2021 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.9 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314910 · Wilkes-Barre, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Ball Ground
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ball Ground (0.1 TCR gap)

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A. Rifkin Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A. Rifkin Co averages 4.5 TCR (135% of the Canvas bags manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

A. Rifkin Co TCR series: 2021=4.9 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where A. Rifkin Co falls in its industry

141 Canvas bags manufacturing establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Canvas bags manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

A. Rifkin Co (65 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate A. Rifkin Co
A. Rifkin Co (65 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

A. Rifkin Co has more employees than the Canvas bags manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2023 2.5 0.0 0 1 0
2022 6.9 4.6 3 0 0
2021 4.9 4.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314910 · PA · Wilkes-Barre

141 Canvas bags manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 83 employers in Wilkes-Barre, 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 Ball Ground 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hubco-Main plant 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGlobe, LLC Eunice 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van Nuys Awning Co., Inc 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Star Roses and Plants 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. - Willow Grove 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yoe Construction, Inc 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yoe Industrial Services 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkes-Barre 1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR AVP1 1,212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mohegan Sun Pocono 1,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR 48002B01 CAREMARKPCS, L.L.C. 726 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - HNE1 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Terrace of Kissimmee 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines - HNL 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Northeast Texas Farmers Coop-Sulphur Springs 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seattle Office 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Biggs, Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dfa Distributing West - Mcallen Tx 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oneida Air Systems 65 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, 2021. 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.