Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Essendant: Oaks OE FE

Phoenixville, PA · ~174 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Essendant: Oaks OE FE runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
27
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Essendant: Oaks OE FE's OSHA Total Case Rate of 3.8 to the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark of 2.2 (173% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Essendant: Oaks OE FE's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.

051015 201920202021202220232024 4.92.2 Industry benchmarkEssendant: Oaks OE FE TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 424120.

Where Essendant: Oaks OE FE falls in its industry

106 Stationery supplies merchant w establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Stationery supplies merchant w employers in Pennsylvania.

Trend analysis for Essendant: Oaks OE FE

Between 2019 and 2024, Essendant: Oaks OE FE's Total Case Rate worsened from 1.3 to 4.9 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 265% increase across 5 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 0.9, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 10.6, a spread of 9.7 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 6 reporting years, Essendant: Oaks OE FE recorded 27 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 27 injuries, 1 illnesses shown on this page for Essendant: Oaks OE FE are sourced from its own 6 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 424120 - Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

6 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 286,249 hours worked = 4.19 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Essendant: Oaks OE FE (this establishment) 3.81 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg
Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers industry avg 2.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 424120
Pennsylvania state avg (all industries) 5.06 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Essendant: Oaks OE FE to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 4.9 4.2 6 1 0
2023 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2022 2.0 0.0 2 0 0
2021 10.6 8.0 12 0 0
2020 3.1 2.3 4 0 0
2019 1.3 1.3 2 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Essendant: Oaks OE FE's reported OSHA injury record versus its Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 173% of the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers benchmark, Essendant: Oaks OE FE reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Essendant: Oaks OE FE's safety grade?
Essendant: Oaks OE FE has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.8 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.2 for Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers.
How many injuries has Essendant: Oaks OE FE reported?
Essendant: Oaks OE FE has reported 27 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 6 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.