Powder coatings manufacturing · Pennsylvania

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing

Reading, PA · ~167 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Powder coatings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Powder coatings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing safety composite

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2020

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Reading, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #1/40
  • PHOTO ICP Construction - A…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ICP Construction - Andover (0.0 TCR gap)

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AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Powder coatings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing falls in its industry

530 Powder coatings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 40 Powder coatings manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing (167 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing
AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing (167 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing has more employees than the Powder coatings manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2020 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2019 1.6 0.8 1 1 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · PA · Reading

530 Powder coatings manufacturing 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 ICP Construction - Andover 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA TX Garland Shiloh Road Plant 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avient Colormatrix Corporation 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA KY Bowling Green Plant 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rice Fruit Company 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brothers 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wellington Power Corporation 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA PA Cranberry Township 167 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 Maronda Homes Inc of Florida Orlando 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Total Card, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Honeywell Intelligrated - MD82 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR L.K. Jordan, Austin, LTD d/b/a LK Jordan & Associates 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anoka Semi-Independent Living Services and Day Training and Habilitation 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coleman - NBTX 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4 Over, LLC. 1225/ 1265 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE MP Systems, Inc. 167 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.