Machine shops · Pennsylvania

DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY

Latrobe, PA · ~34 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY safety composite

DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2017→2023

DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY injury rate improved

DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY's TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.7 · 2018=11.5 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Latrobe, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #87/177
  • PHOTO Brodeur Machine Comp…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brodeur Machine Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY TCR series: 2017=2.7 · 2018=11.5 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #87 safest of 177 Machine shops employers in Pennsylvania.

DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY (34 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY
DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY (34 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

DF MANUFACTURING, INC. dba HYDRO CARBIDE TOOL COMPANY has fewer 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2020 6.8 6.8 2 0 0
2019 5.2 0.0 2 0 0
2018 11.5 4.6 3 2 0
2017 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · PA · Latrobe

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 66 employers in Latrobe, 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 Brodeur Machine Company, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allied Machine Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HyPro Inc. Vinita (VN) 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Production Machine & Enterprises 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Didden Greenhouse 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Dairy 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.W. Sauder Inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Latrobe Hospital 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : LSM - Latrobe 654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adelphoi Village, Inc. 537 FTE
CITY-NEAR Latrobe Tech Center 534 FTE
NAT-TCR Pepper Dairy 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Raley's 242-Yuba City 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mitchell Grocery Corporation 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Taprite-NWC 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Langford & Low, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bracewell Construction Co., LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Press Journal Printing 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Polymer Coatings 34 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.