Fabricated plate work manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility

Bethlehem, PA · ~136 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fabricated plate work manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility: 1.1 TCR = 34% of Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility safety composite

Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility: 0.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Bethlehem, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 34% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/38
  • PHOTO WALKUP COMPANY
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WALKUP COMPANY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility averages 1.1 TCR (34% of the Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=1.2 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility falls in its industry

449 Fabricated plate work manufact establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 38 Fabricated plate work manufact employers in Pennsylvania.

Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility (136 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility
Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility (136 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Gardner Facility has more employees than the Fabricated plate work manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 3.1 0.0 4 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2020 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · PA · Bethlehem

449 Fabricated plate work 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 WALKUP COMPANY 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryerson Texas Steel Proceessing 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MFH Sheet Metal Fabricators Corp 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paso Robles Tank, Inc 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE SCRSC Scranton Service Center 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bath Saver, Inc. 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Facchiano Contracting, Inc. 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Acres Contracting Co., Inc. 136 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 Trans-Tech Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Port Washington Generating Station 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fleck's Landscaping 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR WSC SAFB Commissary 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Virnig Manufacturing Rice MN 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reynolds Company 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wood Health Company LLC 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain View Programs 136 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.