Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Continental Automotive Inc.

Allentown, PA · ~132 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Continental Automotive Inc. runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Continental Automotive Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 229% of Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Continental Automotive Inc. safety composite

Continental Automotive Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Continental Automotive Inc.: 3.0 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2020

Continental Automotive Inc.'s TCR rose 4.0 from 3.0 in 2018 to 7.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423120 · Allentown, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 229% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #19/45
  • PHOTO Global Parts Louisvi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Global Parts Louisville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Continental Automotive Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Continental Automotive Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (229% of the Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Continental Automotive Inc. TCR series: 2018=3 · 2020=7 · BLS 2.2

Where Continental Automotive Inc. falls in its industry

950 Automotive parts, new, merchan establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 45 Automotive parts, new, merchan employers in Pennsylvania.

Continental Automotive Inc. (132 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Continental Automotive Inc.
Continental Automotive Inc. (132 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Continental Automotive Inc. has more employees than the Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2020 7.0 4.4 7 1 0
2018 3.0 1.8 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423120 · PA · Allentown

950 Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, 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 Global Parts Louisville 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DC19 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DC16 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hinton Transportation Investments- Atlanta 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dew Fresh Inc 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Fuel Gas Distribution 1100 State Street 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE RestoreCore Inc. 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR Bodycote Thermal Processing Inc. - Grand Rapids 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Alexandria Shop 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Spurlock Power Station 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kincaid Generation LLC 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE cambridge Pace 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flexco Grand Rapids Main 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tolk/Plant X Station 132 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, 2018. 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.