Bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Bedford L.B. Foster Company

Bedford, PA · ~46 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bedford L.B. Foster Company runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Bedford L.B. Foster Company: 2.3 TCR = 69% of Bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bedford L.B. Foster Company safety composite

Bedford L.B. Foster Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bedford L.B. Foster Company: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Bedford L.B. Foster Company's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Bedford, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 69% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/91
  • PHOTO Schoover Industries
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schoover Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bedford L.B. Foster Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bedford L.B. Foster Company averages 2.3 TCR (69% of the Bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bedford L.B. Foster Company TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Bedford L.B. Foster Company falls in its industry

1,491 Bars, concrete reinforcing, ma establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #9 safest of 91 Bars, concrete reinforcing, ma employers in Pennsylvania.

Bedford L.B. Foster Company (46 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Bedford L.B. Foster Company
Bedford L.B. Foster Company (46 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Bedford L.B. Foster Company has fewer employees than the Bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturin 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
2019 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.7 6.7 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · PA · Bedford

1,491 Bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 43 employers in Bedford, 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 Schoover Industries 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BELL STEEL COMPANY 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Harris Rebar South LLC - Houston Texas 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crimson Tulsa 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Pride Inc / Bell & Evans Hatchery 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Casing, Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Elizabethtown ELI1 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6047 937 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6047 831 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omni Bedford Springs Resort 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omni Bedford Springs 470 FTE
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 0383 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MacKinnon Tampa 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Knife River Kalispell DBA JTL 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tuff Shed Store 320 - DFW - SC 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1602 Austin Truss 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ga 415 Veterans Memoria 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE 308 N. Railroad Ave 46 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: 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.