Concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) assemblies, fabrication · Pennsylvania

Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Bethlehem, PA · ~106 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) assemblies, fabrication workplace, earning a grade B.

Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) assemblies, fabrication BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania safety composite

Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: 2.4 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2021

Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.4 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Bethlehem, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #6/91
  • PHOTO Pikes Peak Steel LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pikes Peak Steel LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) assemblies, fabrication BLS benchmark).

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

Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania falls in its industry

1,491 Concrete reinforcing bar (reba establishments

Safer than 80% 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 #6 safest of 91 Concrete reinforcing bar (reba employers in Pennsylvania.

Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (106 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (106 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Barker Steel - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has more employees than the Concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) assembl median and a lower 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
2021 3.1 2.0 3 0 0
2020 1.8 0.9 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2017 2.9 2.9 4 0 0
2016 2.4 2.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · PA · Bethlehem

1,491 Concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) assemblies, fabrication employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 358 employers in Bethlehem, 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 Pikes Peak Steel LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garrison Steel Fabricators, Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR W&W|AFCO Steel Van Buren 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veritas Steel- Eau Claire 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE McKeesport 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miller Bros Construction Inc 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE TCCo-PIT 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE GWS Lehigh 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 5,338 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Physician's Group 3,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Muhlenberg 2,139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4087 2,105 FTE
NAT-TCR Office 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HIMWS - Winston-Salem 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR FCG Home Office 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Resurrection Ret-PH 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Benedictine Living Community of Ada 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE D&L, Incorporated 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fluid Management 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hamilton 106 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: 2021, 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.