Chain, welded, made from purchased wire · Pennsylvania

Apex Tool Group

York, PA · ~146 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apex Tool Group runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chain, welded, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade C.

Apex Tool Group: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Chain, welded, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apex Tool Group safety composite

Apex Tool Group scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Apex Tool Group: 1.7 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.11× in 2024

Apex Tool Group's TCR rose 6.2 from 1.7 in 2017 to 7.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · York, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #14/25
  • PHOTO Barker Wire Products…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barker Wire Products, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apex Tool Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apex Tool Group averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Chain, welded, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Apex Tool Group TCR series: 2017=1.7 · 2018=3.6 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Apex Tool Group falls in its industry

270 Chain, welded, made from purch establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 25 Chain, welded, made from purch employers in Pennsylvania.

Apex Tool Group (146 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Apex Tool Group
Apex Tool Group (146 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Apex Tool Group has more employees than the Chain, welded, made from purchased wire median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 7.9 7.9 8 0 0
2023 3.3 2.6 5 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 4 0 0
2021 2.9 0.7 4 0 0
2018 3.6 3.1 7 0 0
2017 1.7 1.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · PA · York

270 Chain, welded, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 496 employers in York, 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 Barker Wire Products, Inc 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashley Sling, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allentown Inc 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WireCrafters Louisville 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conemaugh Generating Station 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRA Energy Operations Co. 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. - Bryn Mawr 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE United States Roofing Corporation 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR WellSpan York Hospital 4,886 FTE
CITY-NEAR WellSpan Medical Group 4,293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wellspan Health 2,591 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx Supply Chain (Target York) 1,875 FTE
NAT-TCR Ace Hardware Libertyville 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 5802 - Saginaw 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln Industries 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Focused Care at Hogan Park 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Regency Gresham 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milroy optical 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fischbach and Moore LLC 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tahoe Truckee Sierra Disposal 146 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, 2021, 2018, 2017. 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.