Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Blair Companies

Altoona, PA · ~270 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blair Companies runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Blair Companies: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blair Companies safety composite

Blair Companies scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−2.2

2017→2018

Blair Companies injury rate improved

Blair Companies's TCR fell 2.2 from 6.7 in 2017 to 4.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.7 · 2018=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Altoona, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #12/16
  • PHOTO Skyrite Amarillo
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~270 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Skyrite Amarillo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blair Companies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blair Companies averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Blair Companies TCR series: 2017=6.7 · 2018=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Blair Companies falls in its industry

405 Signs and signboards (except p establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 16 Signs and signboards (except p employers in Pennsylvania.

Blair Companies (270 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Blair Companies
Blair Companies (270 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Blair Companies has more employees than the Signs and signboards (except paper, pape median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2018 4.4 1.5 12 0 0
2017 6.7 4.7 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · PA · Altoona

405 Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 120 employers in Altoona, 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 Skyrite Amarillo 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sonnys Signs by Mr. Foamer 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Signtech Electrical Advertising, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALMETEK INDUSTRIES INC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE ACME Box Company 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global - MOPA 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haemonetics 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE Service Center 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pyramid Healthcare Inc 3,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Altoona 2,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Nursing Agency and Visiting Nurse Association 785 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Altoona Regional Health Services Inc 606 FTE
NAT-TCR Geeleher Enterprises, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NY-Conn 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Griffin Transportation 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express & Suites Downtown 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Step2 Company, LLC - Perrysville 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spectrum America SCS 999 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacesetters, Inc. 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 270 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: 2018, 2017. 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.