Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel · Pennsylvania

Bekaert wilkes barre

Wilkes Barre, PA · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bekaert wilkes barre runs at 239% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade F.

Bekaert wilkes barre: 7.9 TCR = 239% of Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bekaert wilkes barre safety composite

Bekaert wilkes barre scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−106.8

2021→2023

Bekaert wilkes barre injury rate improved

Bekaert wilkes barre's TCR fell 106.8 from 117.4 in 2021 to 10.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 117.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=117.4 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=10.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Wilkes Barre, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 239% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/19
  • PHOTO Insteel Wire Product…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bekaert wilkes barre in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bekaert wilkes barre averages 7.9 TCR (239% of the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

Bekaert wilkes barre TCR series: 2021=117.4 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=10.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Bekaert wilkes barre falls in its industry

163 Drawing iron or steel wire fro establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 19 Drawing iron or steel wire fro employers in Pennsylvania.

Bekaert wilkes barre (19 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 Bekaert wilkes barre
Bekaert wilkes barre (19 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Bekaert wilkes barre has fewer employees than the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchase median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2023 10.6 0.0 1 1 0
2022 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2021 117.4 117.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · PA · Wilkes Barre

163 Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 86 employers in Wilkes Barre, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fenix LLC. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wirerope Works Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookfield Wire Company, Inc. 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kennett Square Mushroom Operation, LLC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williamsport Office 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE 473-NiSource-PA Central Horning Rd MOD 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEISINGER WYOMING VALLEY MEDIC 2,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR AVP1 1,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkes Barre Hospital Company, LLC 1,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Dynamics OTS (Wilkes-Barre), LLC 517 FTE
NAT-TCR Advance Services, Inc. CP 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Raley's 337-Rohnert Park 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 33 Everett Rd 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR H&W Construction Co. Inc. 7.9 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.