Foundries, die-casting, aluminum · Pennsylvania

Blue Ridge Pressure Castings

Lehighton, PA · ~97 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Ridge Pressure Castings runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Foundries, die-casting, aluminum workplace, earning a grade D.

Blue Ridge Pressure Castings: 6.6 TCR = 199% of Foundries, die-casting, aluminum BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Ridge Pressure Castings safety composite

Blue Ridge Pressure Castings scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−0.9

2018→2021

Blue Ridge Pressure Castings injury rate improved

Blue Ridge Pressure Castings's TCR fell 0.9 from 5.2 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.2 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331523 · Lehighton, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 199% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Ozark Die Casting Two
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ozark Die Casting Two (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blue Ridge Pressure Castings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Ridge Pressure Castings averages 6.6 TCR (199% of the Foundries, die-casting, aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Ridge Pressure Castings TCR series: 2018=5.2 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Blue Ridge Pressure Castings falls in its industry

221 Foundries, die-casting, alumin establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Foundries, die-casting, alumin employers in Pennsylvania.

Blue Ridge Pressure Castings (97 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Ridge Pressure Castings
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings (97 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Blue Ridge Pressure Castings has more employees than the Foundries, die-casting, aluminum median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2021 4.3 1.1 1 3 0
2020 4.1 1.4 3 0 0
2019 12.8 5.9 10 3 0
2018 5.2 3.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331523 · PA · Lehighton

221 Foundries, die-casting, aluminum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 34 employers in Lehighton, 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 Ozark Die Casting Two 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Light Metals, LLC DBA Empire Die Casting Co. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Signicast Brown Deer 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DyCast Specialties Corp 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE North American Drillers, LLC 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gibsonia 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipeline Systems Inc. 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Asphalt Chase 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gnaden Huetten Memorial Hospital 710 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Mountain Hospital 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2169 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2169 352 FTE
NAT-TCR McKinley Facility 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Troutdale Elementary 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Alta Equipment Company Battle Creek 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Parmly on the Lake 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Denton Beverage 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Twilight Home 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hardings Markets 936 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Police Department 97 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.