Machine shops · Pennsylvania

Chant Engineering Co Inc.

New Britain, PA · ~52 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chant Engineering Co Inc. runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Chant Engineering Co Inc.: 6.4 TCR = 194% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chant Engineering Co Inc. safety composite

Chant Engineering Co Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Chant Engineering Co Inc.: 4.1 → 12.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.96× in 2024

Chant Engineering Co Inc.'s TCR rose 8.5 from 4.1 in 2016 to 12.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · New Britain, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 194% of ind

  • DART 12.6 DART
  • RANK #119/177
  • PHOTO Byford Machine-Tool,…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Byford Machine-Tool, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chant Engineering Co Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chant Engineering Co Inc. averages 6.4 TCR (194% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Chant Engineering Co Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=9.6 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=12.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Chant Engineering Co Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #119 safest of 177 Machine shops employers in Pennsylvania.

Chant Engineering Co Inc. (52 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chant Engineering Co Inc.
Chant Engineering Co Inc. (52 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Chant Engineering Co Inc. has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 12.6 12.6 6 0 0
2023 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2022 9.6 9.6 4 1 0
2021 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 6.7 2.2 3 0 0
2019 8.4 4.2 4 0 0
2018 5.9 4.0 3 0 0
2017 4.1 2.0 2 0 0
2016 4.1 4.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · PA · New Britain

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 7 employers in New Britain, 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 Byford Machine-Tool, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri-State Machine 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Environmental Mfg. & Supply, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATI Cast Products Salem Operations 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maitri Genetics 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Insa Shamokin Dam 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ethos Fairless Hills 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR NB-Oliver Health Care Packaging 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR 106473 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR GIANT FOOD STORES 6473 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carleton Inc 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Prime Window Systems 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Omega Plastics LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wirhi - Rhinelander 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 3844 Milford 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mint Roofing, Inc 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE ECMS Express Inc 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Riverview 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lindau Chemicals, Inc. 52 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, 2019, 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.