Color pigments, inorganic (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Ferro Corporation

Washington, PA · ~114 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ferro Corporation runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Color pigments, inorganic (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ferro Corporation: 3.6 TCR = 109% of Color pigments, inorganic (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ferro Corporation safety composite

Ferro Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Ferro Corporation: 3.1 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.61× in 2021

Ferro Corporation's TCR rose 2.7 from 3.1 in 2019 to 5.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325130 · Washington, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 109% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Solomon Colors, Inc.…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Solomon Colors, Inc. Springfield (0.2 TCR gap)

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Ferro Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ferro Corporation averages 3.6 TCR (109% of the Color pigments, inorganic (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ferro Corporation TCR series: 2019=3.1 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ferro Corporation falls in its industry

75 Color pigments, inorganic (exc establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Color pigments, inorganic (exc employers in Pennsylvania.

Ferro Corporation (114 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ferro Corporation
Ferro Corporation (114 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Ferro Corporation has more employees than the Color pigments, inorganic (except bone b median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2021 5.8 5.8 2 0 0
2020 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2019 3.1 3.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325130 · PA · Washington

75 Color pigments, inorganic (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 139 employers in Washington, 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 Solomon Colors, Inc. Springfield 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dystar Hilton Davis 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ORGANIC DYES AND PIGMENTS - UNION 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BASF Ames 801 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE TerrAscend-Ilera Health Care 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pittsburgh Operations 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danella Line Services, Inc. 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAGODA ELECTRICAL INC 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Washington Hospital 1,630 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Meadows Racetrack and Casino 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hollywood Casino at The Meadows 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Songer Services Incorporated 621 FTE
NAT-TCR Krugerville Ready Mix Plant 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DiMare Fresh Tampa, Inc 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR True World Foods Detroit LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartley Elementary 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Foster Fence Ltd 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avon Old Farms Hotel 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hardison/Downey Construction 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE MDS Boringing & Drilling Inc. 114 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.