Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc.

Chambersburg, PA · ~112 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc. runs at 261% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc.: 5.8 TCR = 261% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc. safety composite

Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc.: 6.3 → 13.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.28× in 2020

Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 6.8 from 6.3 in 2016 to 13.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Chambersburg, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.8 · 261% of ind

  • DART 13.1 DART
  • RANK #34/62
  • PHOTO Used Cardboard Boxes…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Used Cardboard Boxes, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc. averages 5.8 TCR (261% of the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc. TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=0.2 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=13.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc. falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 62 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Pennsylvania.

Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc. (112 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 050100150 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc.
Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc. (112 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Chambersburg Waste Paper Co., Inc. has more employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2020 13.1 13.1 11 1 0
2019 3.4 2.3 3 0 0
2017 0.2 0.2 4 0 0
2016 6.3 6.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · PA · Chambersburg

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 144 employers in Chambersburg, 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 Used Cardboard Boxes, Inc 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PnP Columbus 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMS New Carlisle 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Springfield Iron & Metal 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Montour, LLC 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Overhead Transmission Center 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar - Philadelphia 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kay Builders 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chambersburg Hospital 2,034 FTE
CITY-NEAR WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0589 - Chambersburg PA DC 1,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0589 - Chambersburg DC 1,049 FTE
NAT-TCR 163114-Glen Carbon Po 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 570 Kennesaw, Ga 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 759 Chula Vista, Ca 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Groton Regency,Genesis HealthCare 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE FI - Boca Raton, LLC 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amneal Pharmaceuticals-47 Col Drive 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milan-Deere Returns 112 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: 2020, 2019, 2017, 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.