Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Ernest Menold

Lester, PA · ~71 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ernest Menold runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Ernest Menold: 2.6 TCR = 78% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ernest Menold safety composite

Ernest Menold scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Ernest Menold: 3.1 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2022

Ernest Menold's TCR rose 1.4 from 3.1 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Lester, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 78% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #13/68
  • PHOTO Art & Alloy, LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Art & Alloy, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ernest Menold in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ernest Menold averages 2.6 TCR (78% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ernest Menold TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2018=0 · 2020=2.7 · 2022=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Ernest Menold falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 68 Air cowls, sheet metal (except employers in Pennsylvania.

Ernest Menold (71 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ernest Menold
Ernest Menold (71 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Ernest Menold has more employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 4.5 1.1 4 0 0
2020 2.7 1.4 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.1 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · PA · Lester

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 11 employers in Lester, 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 Art & Alloy, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Technico Inc. dba Modern Metal Products 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwark Metal - Mississippi Division 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Demmer Investments IV, Inc. dba Quality Tool (MN) 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE FarmaceuticalRX LLC PA 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hazleton 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.S. Mowery & Sons, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hazleton Site Contractors 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Safway Services, LLC - Philadelphia 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR BrandSafway Industries, LLC - Philadelphia - Branch 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR BrandSafway Services, LLC - Philadelphia Branch 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR 085 Philadelphia PA Barnhart Northeast Inc 61 FTE
NAT-TCR Brandon Lewis Orchards, Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Morito Scovill 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Craftsman Label Co 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 9123-Hnl-Primeflight Aviation Services, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE tkSCS Louisville Containment 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nmwi02-Nmc-Nm - Cuba City 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chemtec Energy Services 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE J&L Fasteners 71 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, 2020, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.