Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons

Chester, PA · ~24 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons runs at 439% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons: 14.5 TCR = 439% of Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons safety composite

Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons: 0.0 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 26.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2024

Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons's TCR rose 13.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 13.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 26.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Chester, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.5 · 439% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #20/20
  • PHOTO Mason Manufacturing,…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mason Manufacturing, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons averages 14.5 TCR (439% of the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=13.4 · 2020=9.5 · 2022=24.3 · 2023=26.6 · 2024=13.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons falls in its industry

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 20 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal employers in Pennsylvania.

Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons (24 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons
Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons (24 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Byrne Chiarlone LP d/b/a Wm. A. Schmidt and Sons has fewer employees than the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 13.3 4.4 3 0 0
2023 26.6 8.8 4 2 0
2022 24.3 0.0 5 0 0
2020 9.5 4.8 2 0 0
2019 13.4 8.9 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · PA · Chester

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 45 employers in Chester, 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 Mason Manufacturing, LLC 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niles Steel Tank Company 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle Boiler Works, Inc 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feldmeier Equipment NV 15.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Avon Heights Mushrooms, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waynesburg PA 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Electric Power LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrah's Philadelphia Casino Racetrack 1,017 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Access Network 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHRG PHL/HQ 826 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHRG HQ 680 FTE
NAT-TCR JEI Corporate Services Sacramento 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0208 Livermore 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bennett Lumber Products, Inc. 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Three Rivers 14.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Events Company 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dresser-Rand Los Angeles Service Center 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dakota Storage Buildings, LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Protective Coatings 24 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.