Laundries, linen and uniform supply · Pennsylvania

Balfurd, Inc.

Tipton, PA · ~149 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Balfurd, Inc. runs at 358% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Laundries, linen and uniform supply workplace, earning a grade F.

Balfurd, Inc.: 7.5 TCR = 358% of Laundries, linen and uniform supply BLS 2.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Balfurd, Inc. safety composite

Balfurd, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.4

2018→2024

Balfurd, Inc. injury rate improved

Balfurd, Inc.'s TCR fell 10.4 from 11.9 in 2018 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.9 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=9.7 · 2021=7.6 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812331 · Tipton, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 358% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #9/13
  • PHOTO Mission Linen Oceans…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mission Linen Oceanside 2600 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Balfurd, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Balfurd, Inc. averages 7.5 TCR (358% of the Laundries, linen and uniform supply BLS benchmark).

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

Balfurd, Inc. TCR series: 2018=11.9 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=9.7 · 2021=7.6 · 2023=1 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 2.1

Where Balfurd, Inc. falls in its industry

334 Laundries, linen and uniform s establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 13 Laundries, linen and uniform s employers in Pennsylvania.

Balfurd, Inc. (149 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Balfurd, Inc.
Balfurd, Inc. (149 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Balfurd, Inc. has more employees than the Laundries, linen and uniform supply median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 1.5 0.8 1 1 0
2023 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2021 7.6 6.1 10 0 0
2020 9.7 4.9 10 2 0
2019 13.3 6.6 20 0 0
2018 11.9 2.0 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812331 · PA · Tipton

334 Laundries, linen and uniform supply employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 6 employers in Tipton, 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 Mission Linen Oceanside 2600 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mission Linen Supply San Diego 3402 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michigan Premier Laundry 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mission Linen Supply Oxnard California 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jaindl Farms LLC 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Construction Company, Inc 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Pennsylvania - Blue Bell - Gas Operations (60G1) 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE OMNOVA SOLUTIONS INC 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Pig 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR DelGrosso's Amusement Park 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR DelGrosso Foods Inc. 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marianna Foods 62 FTE
NAT-TCR Mirror Lake Recovery Center 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shreveport Purina Feed Mill 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Ridge Senior Housing 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chaparral Albuquerque 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Careone at King James 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willamette Valley Fruit Company 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE RJM Construction LLC 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blakeslee Prestress, Inc. 149 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.