Tile, clay, refractory, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA

Wilkes Barre, PA · ~208 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Tile, clay, refractory, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Tile, clay, refractory, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA safety composite

Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.6

2016→2018

Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA injury rate improved

Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.9 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Wilkes Barre, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #10/36
  • PHOTO USB Tennessee, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~208 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: USB Tennessee, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA averages 2.2 TCR (66% of the Tile, clay, refractory, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA falls in its industry

307 Tile, clay, refractory, manufa establishments

Safer than 73% 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 #10 safest of 36 Tile, clay, refractory, manufa employers in Pennsylvania.

Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA (208 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA
Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA (208 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA has more employees than the Tile, clay, refractory, manufacturing median and a lower 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 2.3 1.4 4 1 0
2017 1.4 0.5 3 0 0
2016 2.9 1.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · PA · Wilkes Barre

307 Tile, clay, refractory, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 86 employers in Wilkes Barre, 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 USB Tennessee, LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jacksonville Plant 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt. Savage Curwensville 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daltile Lincolnway East 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Piramal Critical Care, LLC 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters-Bensalem 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE PTR Baler & Compactor 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cardone Ind Plant 11+12 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEISINGER WYOMING VALLEY MEDIC 2,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR AVP1 1,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkes Barre Hospital Company, LLC 1,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Dynamics OTS (Wilkes-Barre), LLC 517 FTE
NAT-TCR Longps-Hct-Longview Psd 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Linde - Twinsburg 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR EnerSys National Parts Center/Distribution Center 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR SVC - Kona Coast Sales Center 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Apex Rehabilitation & Care Center 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dairy Fresh - Winston Salem 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ridgedale Facility 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami Facility 208 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, 2017, 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.