Railings, metal, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Handrail Design Inc

Columbia, PA · ~58 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Handrail Design Inc runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Railings, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Handrail Design Inc: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Railings, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Handrail Design Inc safety composite

Handrail Design Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Handrail Design Inc: 7.1 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

Handrail Design Inc's TCR rose 2.5 from 7.1 in 2017 to 9.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332323 · Columbia, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #23/32
  • PHOTO Pacific Stair Corpor…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Stair Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Handrail Design Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Handrail Design Inc averages 6.3 TCR (191% of the Railings, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Handrail Design Inc TCR series: 2017=7.1 · 2018=6 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Handrail Design Inc falls in its industry

309 Railings, metal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 32 Railings, metal, manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Handrail Design Inc (58 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Handrail Design Inc
Handrail Design Inc (58 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Handrail Design Inc has more employees than the Railings, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2024 9.6 5.7 5 0 0
2023 7.7 5.8 4 0 0
2022 10.1 2.0 5 0 0
2021 6.8 3.4 4 0 0
2020 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 6.0 1.5 4 0 0
2017 7.1 1.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332323 · PA · Columbia

309 Railings, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 28 employers in Columbia, 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 Pacific Stair Corporation 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Manufacturing Corp 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OREGON 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Professional Fabrications 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Menu Mate Mushroom Farm 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE CannTech 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE PA Location 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moyer's Hatchery 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anvil International, Columbia Plant 539 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASC Engineered Solutions - (FKA Anvil Int.), Columbia Plant 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Anne's Retirement Community 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR 106566 127 FTE
NAT-TCR Oren International 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fontana Water Company 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CS Beef Packers 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hindley 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stutz Packing 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Larder Baking Company 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charlotte NC Yard 58 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.