Chain, welded, made from purchased wire · Pennsylvania

Apex Tool Group - York Operations

York, PA · ~167 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apex Tool Group - York Operations runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chain, welded, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade D.

Apex Tool Group - York Operations: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Chain, welded, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apex Tool Group - York Operations safety composite

Apex Tool Group - York Operations scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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 - York Operations: 5.3 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2020

Apex Tool Group - York Operations's TCR rose 0.4 from 5.3 in 2019 to 5.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #20/25
  • PHOTO De La Garza Fence Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: De La Garza Fence Co.,Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apex Tool Group - York Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apex Tool Group - York Operations averages 5.5 TCR (168% 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 - York Operations TCR series: 2019=5.3 · 2020=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Apex Tool Group - York Operations falls in its industry

270 Chain, welded, made from purch establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #20 safest of 25 Chain, welded, made from purch employers in Pennsylvania.

Apex Tool Group - York Operations (167 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 - York Operations
Apex Tool Group - York Operations (167 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Apex Tool Group - York Operations 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
2020 5.8 4.3 8 0 0
2019 5.3 4.3 10 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 De La Garza Fence Co.,Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eugene 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Division 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanlo Inc 5.7 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 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 Tripac Fasteners, Inc 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR B & L Mechanical, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Paladin, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR US AutoForce Sioux Falls Warehouse/Lubes Plant 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omni San Antonio Hotel 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2253-H4615 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Augustana Chapel View #092 167 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.