Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Apex Fab

Boyertown, PA · ~43 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apex Fab runs at 432% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Apex Fab: 14.3 TCR = 432% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apex Fab safety composite

Apex Fab scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−1.6

2016→2020

Apex Fab injury rate improved

Apex Fab's TCR fell 1.6 from 9.9 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 22.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.9 · 2017=15.8 · 2018=14.6 · 2019=22.7 · 2020=8.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Boyertown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.3 · 432% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #88/91
  • PHOTO EDCO, INC.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EDCO, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apex Fab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apex Fab averages 14.3 TCR (432% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Apex Fab TCR series: 2016=9.9 · 2017=15.8 · 2018=14.6 · 2019=22.7 · 2020=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Apex Fab falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 91 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Pennsylvania.

Apex Fab (43 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Apex Fab
Apex Fab (43 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Apex Fab has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 8.2 0.0 3 0 0
2019 22.7 9.1 10 0 0
2018 14.6 2.1 7 0 0
2017 15.8 11.9 8 0 0
2016 9.9 4.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · PA · Boyertown

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 28 employers in Boyertown, 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 EDCO, INC. 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apollo Steel 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Afinitas- Sleepy Eye location 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR B.E. Peterson, Inc 14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm Fresh Egg Products (FFEP) 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panda Hummel Station, LLC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE 435-NiSource-New Castle PA 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Builders Inc 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Drug Plastics and Glass Co., Inc. - Boyertown, PA 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Advanced Metals 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chestnut Knoll 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Redner's Warehouse Market Boyertown 92 FTE
NAT-TCR Gasser Hardware 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nutrition Bar Confectioners 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HealthSouth Deaconess 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Utilities Department - Chollas 14.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Lafayette 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfax Hospice 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palletized Trucking, Inc.- Industrial 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fullerton Location 43 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.