Books merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Fox Chapel Publishing Company

East Petersburg, PA · ~55 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fox Chapel Publishing Company runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Books merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Fox Chapel Publishing Company: 2.9 TCR = 131% of Books merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fox Chapel Publishing Company safety composite

Fox Chapel Publishing Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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)
C 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−1.9

2016→2017

Fox Chapel Publishing Company injury rate improved

Fox Chapel Publishing Company's TCR fell 1.9 from 3.8 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.8 · 2017=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424920 · East Petersburg, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.9 · 131% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO NewbornEnterprises
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NewbornEnterprises (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fox Chapel Publishing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fox Chapel Publishing Company averages 2.9 TCR (131% of the Books merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Fox Chapel Publishing Company TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2017=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Fox Chapel Publishing Company falls in its industry

57 Books merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Books merchant wholesalers employers in Pennsylvania.

Fox Chapel Publishing Company (55 employees, TCR 2.9) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Fox Chapel Publishing Company
Fox Chapel Publishing Company (55 employees, TCR 2.9) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Fox Chapel Publishing Company has fewer employees than the Books merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2016 3.8 3.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424920 · PA · East Petersburg

57 Books merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 18 employers in East Petersburg, 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 NewbornEnterprises 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salem Distribution Center 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Girl Wilmot 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6350-MILAN DISTRIBUTION CENTER 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Olyphant, PA 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Viridity Energy Solutions Inc. 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stable Hollow Woodworking LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whistler Construction Company 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR PALAN - LANCASTER 718 FTE
CITY-NEAR LANCASTER (PALAN) 693 FTE
CITY-NEAR Warfel Construction Company 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allen Imports LTD Inc 199 FTE
NAT-TCR South 601 (Stores) MNE9 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hot Springs Office AKK7 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wheeling (Wvwhe) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Louis (Mosli) 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3637 Republic Services Waycross 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Display, Inc. 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Dixon LLC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 6 55 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.

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

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