Demolition contractor · Pennsylvania

Empire Wrecking

Reading, PA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Wrecking runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Demolition contractor workplace, earning a grade D.

Empire Wrecking: 4.4 TCR = 158% of Demolition contractor BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Wrecking safety composite

Empire Wrecking scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−2.8

2016→2022

Empire Wrecking injury rate improved

Empire Wrecking's TCR fell 2.8 from 5.8 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.8 · 2022=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 158% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #77/115
  • PHOTO Inner City Contracti…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Inner City Contracting, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Wrecking in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Wrecking averages 4.4 TCR (158% of the Demolition contractor BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Wrecking TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2022=3 · BLS 2.8

Where Empire Wrecking falls in its industry

1,750 Demolition contractor establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #77 safest of 115 Demolition contractor employers in Pennsylvania.

Empire Wrecking (35 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Wrecking
Empire Wrecking (35 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Empire Wrecking has fewer employees than the Demolition contractor median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2022 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.8 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · PA · Reading

1,750 Demolition contractor employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, 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 Inner City Contracting, LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palm Beach Grading, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR A. A. Will Corporation 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tight Quarters 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE W.A.C. Mushrooms Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highland Oysters 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Spawning, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE PANTHER CREEK POWER OPERATING 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR Chesterfield 37150 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Food Giant #537 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at College of Nj-Traditions 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4028-CON01 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lampert Lumber - Apple Valley 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prime Choice Packaging 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG747 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trans Valley Transport Inc 35 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.