Automatic gate (e.g., garage, parking lot) installation · Pennsylvania

Central State Distributors

Middletown, PA · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central State Distributors runs at 217% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automatic gate (e.g., garage, parking lot) installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Central State Distributors: 6.1 TCR = 217% of Automatic gate (e.g., garage, parking lot) installation BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central State Distributors safety composite

Central State Distributors scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Central State Distributors: 6.8 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2021

Central State Distributors's TCR rose 0.5 from 6.8 in 2017 to 7.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238290 · Middletown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 217% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #42/51
  • PHOTO Wixom MI
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wixom MI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central State Distributors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central State Distributors averages 6.1 TCR (217% of the Automatic gate (e.g., garage, parking lot) installation BLS benchmark).

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

Central State Distributors TCR series: 2017=6.8 · 2018=9 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.1 · 2021=7.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Central State Distributors falls in its industry

1,138 Automatic gate (e.g., garage, establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 51 Automatic gate (e.g., garage, employers in Pennsylvania.

Central State Distributors (31 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Central State Distributors
Central State Distributors (31 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Central State Distributors has fewer employees than the Automatic gate (e.g., garage, parking lo median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 7.4 3.7 2 0 0
2020 7.1 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 9.0 6.0 3 0 0
2017 6.8 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238290 · PA · Middletown

1,138 Automatic gate (e.g., garage, parking lot) installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 99 employers in Middletown, 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 Wixom MI 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mackenzie Automatic Doors Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Devon Industries 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vortex Industries LLC - VTU 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spawn Plant 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caputo & Guest Mushrooms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE COLSC Cocalico Service Center 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenixville Service Building 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR PATWN - EAST ZONE REGIONAL HUB 1,864 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Contact 982 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZEHR 629 FTE
CITY-NEAR NHS 532 FTE
NAT-TCR Coilplus North Carolina 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Schaafsma Heating & Cooling, LLC 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Medical Foundation (185-306) 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR L&M Corrugated Container Corp West 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Burling Builders, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Virginia Carolina Wholesale Grocers, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloom at German Church 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leisure Homestead at St. John 31 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.