House painting · Pennsylvania

CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting

Harrisburg, PA · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting runs at 509% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical House painting workplace, earning a grade F.

CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting: 14.3 TCR = 509% of House painting BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting safety composite

CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting: 7.4 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 19.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2019

CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting's TCR rose 4.9 from 7.4 in 2016 to 12.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 19.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Harrisburg, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.3 · 509% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #19/20
  • PHOTO Queen Anne Painting …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Queen Anne Painting Co., Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting averages 14.3 TCR (509% of the House painting BLS benchmark).

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

CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=19.3 · 2018=17.9 · 2019=12.4 · BLS 2.8

Where CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting falls in its industry

582 House painting establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 20 House painting employers in Pennsylvania.

CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting (33 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting
CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting (33 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting has fewer employees than the House painting median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2019 12.4 6.2 1 1 0
2018 17.9 17.9 4 0 0
2017 19.3 4.8 4 0 0
2016 7.4 7.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · PA · Harrisburg

582 House painting employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 362 employers in Harrisburg, 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 Queen Anne Painting Co., Inc 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Platypus Painting 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Power Property Services, Inc. 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR George Apap, Inc 15.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Caputo & Guest 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colver Power Project 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oil City 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norristown Operations 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals 4,843 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHS/HARRISBURG HOSPITAL 2,703 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pinnacle Health Medical Services 2,426 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Pinnacle 2,311 FTE
NAT-TCR Air Solutions 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR La Jolla Cove Suites 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Zumiez Distribution Center 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Curtimade Dairy Inc. 14.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Taylor Morrison Denver Division 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE YMCA Association Services Office 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE #51 Art Van Jackson 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc. 33 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: 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.