Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Foundry Division

Hanover, PA · ~172 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foundry Division runs at 667% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Foundry Division: 22.0 TCR = 667% of Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foundry Division safety composite

Foundry Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 22.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Foundry Division: 21.6 → 22.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 22.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2017

Foundry Division's TCR rose 0.8 from 21.6 in 2016 to 22.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Hanover, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 22.0 · 667% of ind

  • DART 17.7 DART
  • RANK #21/24
  • PHOTO St Marys Foundry
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St Marys Foundry (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foundry Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foundry Division averages 22.0 TCR (667% of the Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Foundry Division TCR series: 2016=21.6 · 2017=22.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Foundry Division falls in its industry

272 Cast iron brake shoes, railroa establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 24 Cast iron brake shoes, railroa employers in Pennsylvania.

Foundry Division (172 employees, TCR 22.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Foundry Division
Foundry Division (172 employees, TCR 22.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Foundry Division has more employees than the Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufac median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2017 22.4 17.7 43 0 0
2016 21.6 14.6 40 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · PA · Hanover

272 Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 149 employers in Hanover, 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 St Marys Foundry 22.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Taylor and Fenn Company 22.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rochester Metal Products 22.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manitowoc Grey Iron Foundry 21.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE HSC Builders and Construction Managers 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Further LLC 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bickels Snack Foods 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Lion Brewery 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CARTER DOOR & MILLWORK HUB 389 4,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanover Manufacturing Campus 1,446 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hanover 1,090 FTE
CITY-NEAR Snyders-Lance, Inc.- Hanover Manufacturing Facility 850 FTE
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-01382 22.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kovalsky Carr Electric Supply Company Inc. 22.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergy Recycling of Central Florida LLC 22.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Charolais Care I, Inc. dba Mini-Cassia Care Center 22.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate Schofield 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waco (Txwac) 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hermiston Center (Orhrm) 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poughkeepsie (Nypou) 172 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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