Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Foam Fabricators, Inc

Erie, PA · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foam Fabricators, Inc runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Foam Fabricators, Inc: 3.9 TCR = 117% of Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foam Fabricators, Inc safety composite

Foam Fabricators, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Foam Fabricators, Inc: 0.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Foam Fabricators, Inc's TCR rose 3.6 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Erie, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Cellofoam - Conyers,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cellofoam - Conyers, GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foam Fabricators, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foam Fabricators, Inc averages 3.9 TCR (117% of the Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Foam Fabricators, Inc TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=8 · 2021=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Foam Fabricators, Inc falls in its industry

260 Coolers or ice chests, polysty establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Coolers or ice chests, polysty employers in Pennsylvania.

Foam Fabricators, Inc (24 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Foam Fabricators, Inc
Foam Fabricators, Inc (24 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Foam Fabricators, Inc has fewer employees than the Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 8.0 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · PA · Erie

260 Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, 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 Cellofoam - Conyers, GA 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR EFP Elkhart 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ach Foam Technologies Reno Nevada 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morrison Cup Solutions 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Avon Heights Mushrooms, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waynesburg PA 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Electric Power LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station 24 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 BLI1 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Conecsus Tejas 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Medical Foundation (185-247) 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Medical Foundation (185-249) 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lifeworks Services, Inc Apple Valley 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Dakota #47 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Americold Lakewood, Atlanta GA 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 24 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.