Welding and Soldering Equipment Manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Hanover, USA (Mfg)

Hanover, PA · ~260 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hanover, USA (Mfg) runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Welding and Soldering Equipment Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hanover, USA (Mfg): 2.9 TCR = 88% of Welding and Soldering Equipment Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hanover, USA (Mfg) safety composite

Hanover, USA (Mfg) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Hanover, USA (Mfg): 1.2 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2023

Hanover, USA (Mfg)'s TCR rose 3.4 from 1.2 in 2021 to 4.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · Hanover, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Troy Operations
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~260 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Troy Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hanover, USA (Mfg) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hanover, USA (Mfg) averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Welding and Soldering Equipment Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hanover, USA (Mfg) TCR series: 2021=1.2 · 2023=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Hanover, USA (Mfg) falls in its industry

129 Welding and Soldering Equipmen establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Welding and Soldering Equipmen employers in Pennsylvania.

Hanover, USA (Mfg) (260 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0100200300400 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Hanover, USA (Mfg)
Hanover, USA (Mfg) (260 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Hanover, USA (Mfg) has more employees than the Welding and Soldering Equipment Manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2023 4.6 2.5 10 3 0
2021 1.2 0.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · PA · Hanover

129 Welding and Soldering Equipment 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 Troy Operations 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automation International, Inc 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln Electric Cutting Systems, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goss Inc - PA 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE PCB-Meadville 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Meadville Plant 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan Advanced Materials Certech Inc 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Lion Bus Transportation 260 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 Big Lots Store #4052 BUENA PARK, CA 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR San Francisco 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vitalant TX El Paso 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brake Supply Beaver 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Teamvantage Molding 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilex Poly - North Vernon Bag 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE RH Peterson 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloomingdale 260 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: 2023, 2021. 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.