Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Bucks Fabricating

Hadley, PA · ~69 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bucks Fabricating runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bucks Fabricating: 7.5 TCR = 226% of Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bucks Fabricating safety composite

Bucks Fabricating scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.2

2017→2024

Bucks Fabricating injury rate improved

Bucks Fabricating's TCR fell 5.2 from 11.3 in 2017 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.3 · 2018=10.1 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=4.0 · 2024=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · Hadley, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 226% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #7/14
  • PHOTO Wastequip Arvada
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wastequip Arvada (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bucks Fabricating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bucks Fabricating averages 7.5 TCR (226% of the Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bucks Fabricating TCR series: 2017=11.3 · 2018=10.1 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=4 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Bucks Fabricating falls in its industry

175 Garbage cans, light gauge meta establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #7 safest of 14 Garbage cans, light gauge meta employers in Pennsylvania.

Bucks Fabricating (69 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bucks Fabricating
Bucks Fabricating (69 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Bucks Fabricating has more employees than the Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufac 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
2024 6.1 3.0 4 0 0
2022 4.0 2.7 3 0 0
2021 8.1 2.7 6 0 0
2020 4.8 0.0 3 0 0
2019 7.8 0.0 5 0 0
2018 10.1 4.0 10 0 0
2017 11.3 6.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · PA · Hadley

175 Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 3 employers in Hadley, 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 Wastequip Arvada 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif Packaging LLC 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accurate Metal Fabricating Cicero 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Keg Company 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Materials Division 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eddystone 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE JBC Associates, Inc. 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE HHC Winfield 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Component InterTechnologies 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1049 Commodore Perry School Dist. 9 FTE
NAT-TCR Cashsaver #75 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Jensen Metal Products 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Republic Diesel Tri-State Machine 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Magna Seating Detroit 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE TXME 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Combined Energy Services 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE De Groot Dairies 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clean Uniform Company Highland 69 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.