Acetylene manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Berwick Acetylene Plant

Berwick, PA · ~59 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berwick Acetylene Plant runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Acetylene manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Berwick Acetylene Plant: 7.0 TCR = 212% of Acetylene manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berwick Acetylene Plant safety composite

Berwick Acetylene Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Berwick Acetylene Plant: 0.0 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Berwick Acetylene Plant's TCR rose 8.2 from 0.0 in 2021 to 8.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325120 · Berwick, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 212% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #23/26
  • PHOTO OXARC, Inc.- PAS
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OXARC, Inc.- PAS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berwick Acetylene Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berwick Acetylene Plant averages 7.0 TCR (212% of the Acetylene manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Berwick Acetylene Plant TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=13.4 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Berwick Acetylene Plant falls in its industry

295 Acetylene manufacturing establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 26 Acetylene manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Berwick Acetylene Plant (59 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Berwick Acetylene Plant
Berwick Acetylene Plant (59 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Berwick Acetylene Plant has more employees than the Acetylene manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 8.2 6.8 6 0 0
2023 13.4 11.9 9 0 0
2022 6.3 4.8 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · PA · Berwick

295 Acetylene manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 41 employers in Berwick, 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 OXARC, Inc.- PAS 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carbide Industries LLC 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Home City Ice Company - North Webster - 220 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde Niagara Falls 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dan Schantz Greenhouse (Pipersville, PA) 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Creek Nurseries, Inc. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eddystone Generating Station 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE S&A Homes, Inc. 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Susquehanna Nuclear 1,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC6 DC6 BERWICK PA 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA 706 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC6 397 FTE
NAT-TCR 5112 - Augusta 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR PAM Specialty Hospital of San Antonio South 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Composite Modules Inc 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shintone USA, INC 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5813 - Austin 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5770 - Norcross North 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5746 - Madison 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ithaca Region - Solomon Apartment Management 59 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, 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.