Crating goods for shipping · Pennsylvania

Chat of Pa.

Erie, PA · ~35 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chat of Pa. runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Crating goods for shipping workplace, earning a grade C.

Chat of Pa.: 5.3 TCR = 118% of Crating goods for shipping BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chat of Pa. safety composite

Chat of Pa. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 20.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Chat of Pa.: 8.7 → 20.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 20.7 TCR · DART/TCR 3.9× in 2021

Chat of Pa.'s TCR rose 12.0 from 8.7 in 2016 to 20.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 3.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488991 · Erie, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 118% of ind

  • DART 20.7 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Advanced Military Pa…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Military Packaging (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chat of Pa. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chat of Pa. averages 5.3 TCR (118% of the Crating goods for shipping BLS benchmark).

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

Chat of Pa. TCR series: 2016=8.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=20.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Chat of Pa. falls in its industry

91 Crating goods for shipping establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #2 safest of 4 Crating goods for shipping employers in Pennsylvania.

Chat of Pa. (35 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chat of Pa.
Chat of Pa. (35 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Chat of Pa. has fewer employees than the Crating goods for shipping 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
2021 20.7 20.7 0 4 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.7 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488991 · PA · Erie

91 Crating goods for shipping employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 473 employers in Erie, 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 Advanced Military Packaging 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHAT OF MI. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Air & Sea Pak Co. dba Corrigan Air & Sea Cargo 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAll Valley Citrus 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE W.A.C. Mushrooms Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highland Oysters 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Spawning, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE PANTHER CREEK POWER OPERATING 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Erie, PA 5,403 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hamot 2,675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabtec-Erie 2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL 2,135 FTE
NAT-TCR Rosewalk at Lutherwoods 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Transport Corporation - Pt Everglades 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cannon School 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulf & Basco 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Multibase, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt Pleasant Dermatology, LLC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hospice Nuuanu 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE TI Radco, LLP 35 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, 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.