Fermentation equipment, chemical, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

ABEC - Bethlehem

Bethlehem, PA · ~168 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABEC - Bethlehem runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fermentation equipment, chemical, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

ABEC - Bethlehem: 0.8 TCR = 24% of Fermentation equipment, chemical, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABEC - Bethlehem safety composite

ABEC - Bethlehem scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Rising injury rate

ABEC - Bethlehem: 0.5 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2019

ABEC - Bethlehem's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.5 in 2018 to 1.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333249 · Bethlehem, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #3/33
  • PHOTO Syzygy Plasmonics
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Syzygy Plasmonics (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABEC - Bethlehem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABEC - Bethlehem averages 0.8 TCR (24% of the Fermentation equipment, chemical, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ABEC - Bethlehem TCR series: 2018=0.5 · 2019=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where ABEC - Bethlehem falls in its industry

448 Fermentation equipment, chemic establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 33 Fermentation equipment, chemic employers in Pennsylvania.

ABEC - Bethlehem (168 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate ABEC - Bethlehem
ABEC - Bethlehem (168 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0

ABEC - Bethlehem has more employees than the Fermentation equipment, chemical, manufa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2019 1.1 0.6 2 0 0
2018 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333249 · PA · Bethlehem

448 Fermentation equipment, chemical, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 358 employers in Bethlehem, 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 Syzygy Plasmonics 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawson Screen Products, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dart Container MTM 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Maplan Corporation dba batenfeld-cincinnati USA 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE UGI Utilities Bethlehem 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE JC Orr & Sons Inc 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE HB Home Services 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Noble Environmental Specialty Services 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 5,338 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Physician's Group 3,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Muhlenberg 2,139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4087 2,105 FTE
NAT-TCR Nonwovens 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pump Reliability Solutions 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heavy Highway Construction 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR HydroChem LLC-SHX 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE RJK Construction, Inc.` 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electric Machinery Company LLC 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE EDP 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clark Bros. Inc. 168 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: 2019, 2018. 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.