Boilers, heating, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Columbia Boiler Company

Pottstown, PA · ~29 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia Boiler Company runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Boilers, heating, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Columbia Boiler Company: 5.7 TCR = 174% of Boilers, heating, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia Boiler Company safety composite

Columbia Boiler Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Columbia Boiler Company: 7.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2022

Columbia Boiler Company's TCR rose 1.4 from 7.0 in 2017 to 8.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333414 · Pottstown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 174% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #9/13
  • PHOTO RH Peterson
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RH Peterson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbia Boiler Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia Boiler Company averages 5.7 TCR (174% of the Boilers, heating, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Columbia Boiler Company TCR series: 2017=7 · 2018=0 · 2019=9.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Columbia Boiler Company falls in its industry

117 Boilers, heating, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 13 Boilers, heating, manufacturin employers in Pennsylvania.

Columbia Boiler Company (29 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbia Boiler Company
Columbia Boiler Company (29 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Columbia Boiler Company has fewer employees than the Boilers, heating, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 8.4 4.2 2 0 0
2021 9.2 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.9 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 7.0 7.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333414 · PA · Pottstown

117 Boilers, heating, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 110 employers in Pottstown, 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 RH Peterson 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williams Furnace Company 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOLARONICS INC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glas-Col, L.L.C. 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE BJE Reality 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dubois 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Castle Power Plant 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Wellsboro 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pottstown Hospital LLC 888 FTE
CITY-NEAR Limerick Generating Station 775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pottstown Plant 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckman's Inc. 316 FTE
NAT-TCR Heritage Healthcare of Hammond 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Twin City Garage Door 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Property & Facilities 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100482 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Havertys Furniture 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atek Electric, LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bedford Park South 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Emerald Place 29 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.