Hardware, plastics, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Essentra

Erie, PA · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Essentra runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Essentra: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Hardware, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essentra safety composite

Essentra scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−12.7

2017→2019

Essentra injury rate improved

Essentra's TCR fell 12.7 from 12.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Erie, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #109/183
  • PHOTO Appalachian Plastics…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Appalachian Plastics, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Pennsylvania employers → · Look up another →

Essentra in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essentra averages 4.2 TCR (128% 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 TCR series: 2017=12.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Essentra falls in its industry

2,838 Hardware, plastics, manufactur establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #109 safest of 183 Hardware, plastics, manufactur employers in Pennsylvania.

Essentra (28 employees, TCR 4.2) 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
Essentra (28 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Essentra has fewer employees than the Hardware, plastics, manufacturing median and a higher 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 12.7 8.5 3 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 Appalachian Plastics, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brentwood Industries Inc., Martinsburg WV 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reliable Caps, LLC 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Masda Mushroom LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scenery Hill 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Production Fire and Safety LLC., DBA Ampro Strategic Alliance PA 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bethlehem Energy Center 28 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 4192-00051423-TMP 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR SVC - Desert Rose 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Ridge Public Works 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RKM Utility Services, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oiltanking Joliet, LLC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watertown Box 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaCrosse Facility 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE PayDirt Wholesale, LLC - Dayton, Ohio 28 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.