Courier Services Except by Air · Pennsylvania

Altoona (Paalt)

Duncansville, PA · ~124 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Altoona (Paalt) runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade C.

Altoona (Paalt): 5.7 TCR = 87% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Altoona (Paalt) safety composite

Altoona (Paalt) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.3

2016→2018

Altoona (Paalt) injury rate improved

Altoona (Paalt)'s TCR fell 4.3 from 8.1 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.1 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Duncansville, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.7 · 87% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #69/243
  • PHOTO ILBLO - BLOOMINGTON
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ILBLO - BLOOMINGTON (0.0 TCR gap)

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Altoona (Paalt) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Altoona (Paalt) averages 5.7 TCR (87% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Altoona (Paalt) TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=3.8 · BLS 6.5

Where Altoona (Paalt) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 243 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Pennsylvania.

Altoona (Paalt) (124 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Altoona (Paalt)
Altoona (Paalt) (124 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Altoona (Paalt) has more employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 3.8 3.8 3 0 0
2017 5.1 5.1 4 0 0
2016 8.1 5.4 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · PA · Duncansville

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 36 employers in Duncansville, 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 ILBLO - BLOOMINGTON 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 238 ALEXANDER AVE 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR OKWOO - WOODWARD 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR EARTH CITY (MOEAR) 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dougherty Electric, Inc. 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wayne Crouse, Inc. 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avery Dennison Quakertown 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alcom Printing Group, Inc. 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4348 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Veeder-Root Company 281 FTE
CITY-NEAR Veeder-Root (Altoona) 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4348 266 FTE
NAT-TCR Appleton (Wikau) 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5071 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1004-28 GoJet DEN Pilots 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay State Milling Clifton Plant 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greenville (Scgll) 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laconia (Nhlac) 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shelby (Ncshe) 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bozeman Center (Mtbze) 124 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.