Machine shops · Pennsylvania

Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER

Mercer, PA · ~29 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade A.

Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER: 0.5 TCR = 14% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER safety composite

Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER: 0.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 9× in 2024

Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Mercer, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 14% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #2/177
  • PHOTO TRUFORM MACHINE INC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TRUFORM MACHINE INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER averages 0.5 TCR (14% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 98% 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 #2 safest of 177 Machine shops employers in Pennsylvania.

Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER (29 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER
Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER (29 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Buckeye Hone Company - MERCER has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a lower 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
2024 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · PA · Mercer

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 18 employers in Mercer, 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 TRUFORM MACHINE INC 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Machine 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACCU-GRIND & MFG CO INC 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials IL 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE BJE Reality 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dubois 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Castle Power Plant 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Wellsboro 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clearwater Construction 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercer Forge Corporation 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Countryside Convalescent Home LP 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Life Services Mercer 91 FTE
NAT-TCR Saint-Gobain PPL Mickleton 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing Plant 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Howmet - Logistics 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Trumbull (5227) 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shell Lake 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georgia 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Union City Facility 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE High Hotels Ltd - Spring Hill Suites - Ewing 29 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.