Truck trailer manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Blue Ball

Blue Ball, PA · ~88 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Ball runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Blue Ball: 3.3 TCR = 100% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Ball safety composite

Blue Ball scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Blue Ball: 3.6 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.8× in 2024

Blue Ball's TCR rose 2.3 from 3.6 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Blue Ball, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 100% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #5/25
  • PHOTO Denver
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denver (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blue Ball in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Ball averages 3.3 TCR (100% of the Truck trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Ball TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=3 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Blue Ball falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 25 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Blue Ball (88 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Ball
Blue Ball (88 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Blue Ball has more employees than the Truck trailer manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2024 6.0 6.0 4 0 0
2023 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2022 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2021 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.7 4.9 11 0 0
2017 5.4 3.4 8 0 0
2016 3.6 2.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · PA · Blue Ball

474 Truck trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 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 Denver 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magnum Custom Trailers 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kentucky Trailer 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dragon Products Akron 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE JA Myers Bldg & Dev., Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Norwood Company 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE T-Ross Brothers Construction, Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE D & M Contracting Inc 88 FTE
NAT-TCR Addison Drywall, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR United Dairy Farmers Erlanger 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR BioMerieux - Lombard 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Omega Engineering - NJ 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tell City Waupaca 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Ridge Health Campus 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin Star Detonator Company 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solenoid Group 88 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, 2020, 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.