Abrasive products manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant

Butler, PA · ~74 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant runs at 408% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Abrasive products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant: 13.5 TCR = 408% of Abrasive products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant safety composite

Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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 13.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−7.4

2016→2024

Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant injury rate improved

Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant's TCR fell 7.4 from 24.6 in 2016 to 17.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 24.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=24.6 · 2017=14.0 · 2018=16.1 · 2019=14.8 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=17.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327910 · Butler, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.5 · 408% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Carbide Industries, …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carbide Industries, LLC (1.1 TCR gap)

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Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant averages 13.5 TCR (408% of the Abrasive products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant TCR series: 2016=24.6 · 2017=14 · 2018=16.1 · 2019=14.8 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=17.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant falls in its industry

90 Abrasive products manufacturin establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #7 safest of 7 Abrasive products manufacturin employers in Pennsylvania.

Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant (74 employees, TCR 13.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant
Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant (74 employees, TCR 13.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant has more employees than the Abrasive products manufacturing median and a higher 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
2024 17.2 9.3 13 0 0
2023 12.5 8.8 10 0 0
2022 9.4 6.7 7 0 0
2021 4.6 1.5 3 0 0
2020 8.1 4.9 5 0 0
2019 14.8 8.1 10 1 0
2018 16.1 10.2 11 0 0
2017 14.0 7.8 9 0 0
2016 24.6 10.8 15 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327910 · PA · Butler

90 Abrasive products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 97 employers in Butler, 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 Carbide Industries, LLC 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardner Abrasives 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLAMAR USA, INC 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imerys Fused Minerals Niagara Falls, Inc. 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE J. D. MUSHROOMS INC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE R . W . Sauder Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Manheim Egg 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edison Service Center 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Butler Memorial Hospital 1,665 FTE
CITY-NEAR AK Steel - Butler Works 1,351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lifesteps, Inc. 504 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1885 481 FTE
NAT-TCR Tnemec Baltimore 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Clifford-Jacobs Forging Company 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR D1 Arlington Heights Yard 13.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Furtmann Bros LLC 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regional Port Operations Contract 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylor's Industrial Coatings, Incorporated - Branch 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weber and Grahn Conditioning Corp. 74 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.