Hardware, plastics, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Essentra Components - Erie, PA

Erie, PA · ~173 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essentra Components - Erie, PA runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hardware, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Essentra Components - Erie, PA: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Hardware, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essentra Components - Erie, PA safety composite

Essentra Components - Erie, PA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Essentra Components - Erie, PA: 0.6 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2022

Essentra Components - Erie, PA's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.6 in 2020 to 3.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Erie, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #34/183
  • PHOTO Plastocon, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plastocon, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essentra Components - Erie, PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essentra Components - Erie, PA averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Hardware, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Essentra Components - Erie, PA TCR series: 2020=0.6 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Essentra Components - Erie, PA falls in its industry

2,838 Hardware, plastics, manufactur establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 183 Hardware, plastics, manufactur employers in Pennsylvania.

Essentra Components - Erie, PA (173 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Essentra Components - Erie, PA
Essentra Components - Erie, PA (173 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Essentra Components - Erie, PA has more employees than the Hardware, plastics, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 3.9 1.6 3 2 0
2021 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2020 0.6 0.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · PA · Erie

2,838 Hardware, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 473 employers in Erie, 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 Plastocon, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nifco America Corporation Oh Warehouse 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&G International Products Inc. Newark 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSI Molded Plastics Inc. 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Melhorn Sales Service and Trucking 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tastepoint 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARCELORMITTAL MONESSEN 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE PhytogenX 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Erie, PA 5,403 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hamot 2,675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabtec-Erie 2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL 2,135 FTE
NAT-TCR 588 - Sunset Valley 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Care Rome 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Welch Brothers Belvidere, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fidelitone - Goodlettsville, TN 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate Business Center 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARS Aleut Remediation, LLC (Support Staff) 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE IRC-ODFL 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boon Edam 173 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, 2021, 2020. 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.