Tubing, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants · Pennsylvania

Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading

Reading, PA · ~471 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tubing, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading: 5.9 TCR = 179% of Tubing, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading safety composite

Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−1.2

2016→2018

Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading injury rate improved

Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading's TCR fell 1.2 from 6.5 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.5 · 2018=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 179% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #15/22
  • PHOTO Howell Metal Company
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 59 inj
  • SIZE ~471 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Howell Metal Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading averages 5.9 TCR (179% of the Tubing, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants BLS benchmark).

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

Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2018=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading falls in its industry

198 Tubing, copper and copper allo establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 22 Tubing, copper and copper allo employers in Pennsylvania.

Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading (471 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading
Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading (471 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading has more employees than the Tubing, copper and copper alloy, made fr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2018 5.3 4.0 28 0 0
2016 6.5 5.1 31 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · PA · Reading

198 Tubing, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, 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 Howell Metal Company 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rubadue Wire Co., Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freeport McMoRan Refinery 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Federal Metal Co. 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CNH Industrial - New Holland Engineering 471 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1935 471 FTE
STATE-SIZE LTK ENGINEERING SERVICES 471 FTE
STATE-SIZE Almac Clinical Technologies LLC 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR Northwest Community Healthcare Medical Group at 500 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sacramento Gateway (Camat) 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Skowhegan Consolidation Building 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Waugh Foods, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE DNVRCOFO 471 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Antonio Food 471 FTE
NAT-SIZE MS - Kennedy Space Center, FL - 1KSFL 471 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supply Chain : Asheville, NC 471 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.