Towels, paper, made from purchased paper · Pennsylvania

Berk International

Boyertown, PA · ~82 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berk International runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Towels, paper, made from purchased paper workplace, earning a grade D.

Berk International: 5.4 TCR = 165% of Towels, paper, made from purchased paper BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berk International safety composite

Berk International scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−5.2

2021→2024

Berk International injury rate improved

Berk International's TCR fell 5.2 from 8.6 in 2021 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.6 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322291 · Boyertown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 165% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO American Tissue Indu…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Tissue Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berk International in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berk International averages 5.4 TCR (165% of the Towels, paper, made from purchased paper BLS benchmark).

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

Berk International TCR series: 2021=8.6 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Berk International falls in its industry

113 Towels, paper, made from purch establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Towels, paper, made from purch employers in Pennsylvania.

Berk International (82 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Berk International
Berk International (82 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Berk International has fewer employees than the Towels, paper, made from purchased paper median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 3.4 1.7 4 0 0
2023 4.3 1.4 3 0 0
2021 8.6 3.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322291 · PA · Boyertown

113 Towels, paper, made from purchased paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 28 employers in Boyertown, 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 American Tissue Industries 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Princess Paper Inc 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bellemarque LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NPS Holdings LLC Spirit Way 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kiski 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE 868-NiSource-Bridgeville PA - Op Ctr 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHW 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zartman Construction, Inc. 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Drug Plastics and Glass Co., Inc. - Boyertown, PA 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Advanced Metals 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chestnut Knoll 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Redner's Warehouse Market Boyertown 92 FTE
NAT-TCR Elkins Service Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gan Kavod Inc 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosen Inn International 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cabka North America 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 119 - Anchorage Ak 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2002 Coborn's Foley 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Kettering 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marc Glassman Inc 69AV 82 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. 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.