Bricks, glass, made from purchased glass · Pennsylvania

Glass Fabricator

New Castle, PA · ~62 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Glass Fabricator runs at 504% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bricks, glass, made from purchased glass workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.6
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
55
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Glass Fabricator's OSHA Total Case Rate of 16.6 to the Bricks, glass, made from purchased glass BLS benchmark of 3.3 (504% of benchmark) across 5 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Glass Fabricator's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

05101520 20162017201820192020 13.83.3 Industry benchmarkGlass Fabricator TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 327215.

Where Glass Fabricator falls in its industry

463 Bricks, glass, made from purch establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #38 safest of 38 Bricks, glass, made from purch employers in Pennsylvania.

Trend analysis for Glass Fabricator

Between 2016 and 2020, Glass Fabricator's Total Case Rate improved from 18.3 to 13.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 25% decrease across 4 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 13.8, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 18.5, a spread of 4.8 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 5 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.

Summed across those 5 reporting years, Glass Fabricator recorded 55 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 5-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 55 injuries shown on this page for Glass Fabricator are sourced from its own 5 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 327215 - Bricks, glass, made from purchased glass.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

7 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 116,000 hours worked = 12.07 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Glass Fabricator (this establishment) 16.63 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg
Glass products (except packaging containers) made from purchased glass industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 327215
Pennsylvania state avg (all industries) 5.06 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Glass Fabricator to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 13.8 12.1 8 0 0
2019 16.7 12.2 11 0 0
2018 15.8 12.6 10 0 0
2017 18.5 11.4 13 0 0
2016 18.3 4.2 13 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Glass Fabricator's reported OSHA injury record versus its Bricks, glass, made from purchased glass peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 504% of the Bricks, glass, made from purchased glass benchmark, Glass Fabricator reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Bricks, glass, made from purchased glass sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Glass Fabricator's safety grade?
Glass Fabricator has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 16.6 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Bricks, glass, made from purchased glass.
How many injuries has Glass Fabricator reported?
Glass Fabricator has reported 55 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 5 years of OSHA data (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.