Profile shapes (e.g., rod, tube), nonrigid plastics, manufacturing · Delaware

DuPont - Pencader

Newark, DE · ~121 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DuPont - Pencader runs at 9% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Profile shapes (e.g., rod, tube), nonrigid plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

DuPont - Pencader: 0.3 TCR = 9% of Profile shapes (e.g., rod, tube), nonrigid plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DuPont - Pencader safety composite

DuPont - Pencader scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

DuPont - Pencader held a steady TCR band

DuPont - Pencader's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 0.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326121 · Newark, DE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 9% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Zeus Sales/R&D/AMP F…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Zeus Sales/R&D/AMP Facility (0.1 TCR gap)

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DuPont - Pencader in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DuPont - Pencader averages 0.3 TCR (9% of the Profile shapes (e.g., rod, tube), nonrigid plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

DuPont - Pencader TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where DuPont - Pencader falls in its industry

202 Profile shapes (e.g., rod, tub establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Delaware alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Profile shapes (e.g., rod, tub employers in Delaware.

DuPont - Pencader (121 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate DuPont - Pencader
DuPont - Pencader (121 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 3.7

DuPont - Pencader has more employees than the Profile shapes (e.g., rod, tube), nonrig median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326121 · DE · Newark

202 Profile shapes (e.g., rod, tube), nonrigid plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 221 employers in Newark, DE · 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 Zeus Sales/R&D/AMP Facility 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR W&W Fiberglass Tank Co 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DuPont Pencader Plant 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lyondellbasell 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Haskell 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5472-000007872 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5472-NAI-0034-0034-02679 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE NEWARK_1374919 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR 50 Christiana 11,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newark Site 1,462 FTE
CITY-NEAR DE00000042 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - NEWARK 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR DuPont Electronic Materials 653 FTE
NAT-TCR Lionsgate Entertainment- 2700 Colorado 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR BLN 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 560 Restaurant 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunroad Auto Shared Services Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Palmer Johnson Power Systems 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oklahoma City Renaissance 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Volvo Penta Marine Products, LLC. 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Glen Ellyn 121 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. 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.