Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in chemical sciences · Pennsylvania

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center

Reading, PA · ~37 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in chemical sciences workplace, earning a grade C.

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center: 0.5 TCR = 108% of Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in chemical sciences BLS 0.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center safety composite

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−2.7

2016→2020

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center injury rate improved

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center's TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541711 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.5 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/13
  • PHOTO Sanofi @ 225 2nd Ave
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanofi @ 225 2nd Ave (0.0 TCR gap)

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AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center averages 0.5 TCR (108% of the Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in chemical sciences BLS benchmark).

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

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 0.5

Where AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center falls in its industry

189 Biotechnology research and dev establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 13 Biotechnology research and dev employers in Pennsylvania.

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center (37 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 296 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center
AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center (37 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 296 employees and a TCR of 0.8

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Flying Hills R&D Center has fewer employees than the Biotechnology research and development l median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541711 · PA · Reading

189 Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in chemical sciences employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, 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 Sanofi @ 225 2nd Ave 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poseida Therapeutics 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alcon Research, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Battelle - Atlantic City Operations 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Packing 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Packing House 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Adams Electric Cooperative Inc. Headquarters Office 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Claverack REC - Wysox 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR Vernon Sal, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Venture Repair Center 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Division Montgomery Dickinson Drive Complex 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PQ - Augusta Georgia Plant 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Location 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meriter Deming Way 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMM Group Johnston Facility 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Dairy Transport-Logan 37 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: 2020, 2019, 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.