Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

First Article Inc.

Souderton, PA · ~39 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Article Inc. runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

First Article Inc.: 1.8 TCR = 56% of Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Article Inc. safety composite

First Article Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

First Article Inc.: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

First Article Inc.'s TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Souderton, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/42
  • PHOTO ATIW
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ATIW (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Article Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Article Inc. averages 1.8 TCR (56% of the Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

First Article Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where First Article Inc. falls in its industry

741 Instruments, mechanical micros establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 42 Instruments, mechanical micros employers in Pennsylvania.

First Article Inc. (39 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate First Article Inc.
First Article Inc. (39 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

First Article Inc. has fewer employees than the Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 2.5 0.0 0 1 0
2023 4.9 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · PA · Souderton

741 Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 69 employers in Souderton, 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 ATIW 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medivators - MN 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DePuy Synthes BRW Plant West Chester 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edwards Lifesciences LLC 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sylvan PA 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monterey Mushrooms, LLC.- Temple, PA 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping) 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS Souderton INC 1,402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Almac Clinical Services LLC 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Almac Clinical Technologies LLC 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leidy's Inc. 297 FTE
NAT-TCR Ecolab DC Warehouse 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Rapids Branch 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hjq Ag Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Orem City Center 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE AGLC Conyers Service Center 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE AGLC Macon Service Center 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Environmental Testing and Abatement, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Liberty Caguas 39 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, 2019, 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.