Industrial controls, electrical, merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Fromm Reading Branch

Reading, PA · ~87 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fromm Reading Branch runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Industrial controls, electrical, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Fromm Reading Branch: 5.2 TCR = 236% of Industrial controls, electrical, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fromm Reading Branch safety composite

Fromm Reading Branch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

−6.5

2022→2024

Fromm Reading Branch injury rate improved

Fromm Reading Branch's TCR fell 6.5 from 8.3 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.3 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423610 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 236% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #46/57
  • PHOTO DT, Service Center, TX
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DT, Service Center, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fromm Reading Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fromm Reading Branch averages 5.2 TCR (236% of the Industrial controls, electrical, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Fromm Reading Branch TCR series: 2022=8.3 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Fromm Reading Branch falls in its industry

1,190 Industrial controls, electrica establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 57 Industrial controls, electrica employers in Pennsylvania.

Fromm Reading Branch (87 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Fromm Reading Branch
Fromm Reading Branch (87 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Fromm Reading Branch has more employees than the Industrial controls, electrical, merchan median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2023 5.3 4.0 4 0 0
2022 8.3 2.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423610 · PA · Reading

1,190 Industrial controls, electrical, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, 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 DT, Service Center, TX 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6340-QED-8 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pepco Eastlake 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6340-COOPERFRIEDMAN-001017_US_S0422 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adams County Nursery Inc 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handwerk Site Contractors 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1400 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE David M. Maines Associates, Inc. 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR East Liberty 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Helwig Carbon Products, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR B & B Trucking, Inc 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Woodbury - M Health Fairview Sports Center 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE General Public Administration 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4063 Albion College 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE idX Dallas 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE 62FW 87 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.