Aluminum Foundry · Pennsylvania

Cera-Met

Bethlehem, PA · ~116 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cera-Met runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aluminum Foundry workplace, earning a grade D.

Cera-Met: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Aluminum Foundry BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cera-Met safety composite

Cera-Met scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Cera-Met: 3.2 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2024

Cera-Met's TCR rose 5.9 from 3.2 in 2016 to 9.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331524 · Bethlehem, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #7/15
  • PHOTO GENERAL ALUMINUM MFG…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GENERAL ALUMINUM MFG CO (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cera-Met in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cera-Met averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Aluminum Foundry BLS benchmark).

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

Cera-Met TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2020=6 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Cera-Met falls in its industry

156 Aluminum Foundry establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

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 15 Aluminum Foundry employers in Pennsylvania.

Cera-Met (116 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cera-Met
Cera-Met (116 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Cera-Met has more employees than the Aluminum Foundry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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
2024 9.1 8.2 10 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 5 0 0
2022 6.9 6.9 8 0 0
2021 9.8 8.9 9 2 0
2020 6.0 3.0 6 0 0
2016 3.2 2.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331524 · PA · Bethlehem

156 Aluminum Foundry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 358 employers in Bethlehem, 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 GENERAL ALUMINUM MFG CO 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corbitt Manufacturing Company 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PT Foundry 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DEE Inc Foundry 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pietro Industries Inc 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jendoco Construction Corporation 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE HHC 1882 Winfield 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rabe Environmental Systems, Inc. 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 5,338 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Physician's Group 3,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Muhlenberg 2,139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4087 2,105 FTE
NAT-TCR Cooper Steel of Virginia, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Greensboro- Finance 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeside Industries - Vancouver 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanders 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Robert C Shinn Jr. Recycling center 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Des Plaines Rehabilitation and Health Care Center 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE CalPortland Company 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southerland Inc. Tennessee 116 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, 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.