Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Harmar Plant

Cheswick, PA · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harmar Plant runs at 581% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Harmar Plant: 19.2 TCR = 581% of Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harmar Plant safety composite

Harmar Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

−11.2

2016→2019

Harmar Plant injury rate improved

Harmar Plant's TCR fell 11.2 from 24.8 in 2016 to 13.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 24.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=24.8 · 2017=24.1 · 2018=14.2 · 2019=13.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Cheswick, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.2 · 581% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #36/36
  • PHOTO Building Products Co…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Building Products Company LLC (1.0 TCR gap)

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Harmar Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harmar Plant averages 19.2 TCR (581% of the Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Harmar Plant TCR series: 2016=24.8 · 2017=24.1 · 2018=14.2 · 2019=13.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Harmar Plant falls in its industry

307 Bricks (i.e., common, face, gl establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 36 Bricks (i.e., common, face, gl employers in Pennsylvania.

Harmar Plant (33 employees, TCR 19.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Harmar Plant
Harmar Plant (33 employees, TCR 19.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Harmar Plant has fewer employees than the Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, holl median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2019 13.6 10.9 4 1 0
2018 14.2 11.8 5 1 0
2017 24.1 14.5 7 3 0
2016 24.8 11.0 6 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · PA · Cheswick

307 Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 30 employers in Cheswick, 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 Building Products Company LLC 20.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alsey Refractories Company 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR A & M Refractories, Inc. 20.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Caputo & Guest 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colver Power Project 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oil City 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norristown Operations 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Curtiss Wright - Cheswick Facility 721 FTE
CITY-NEAR HarmarVillage Care Center 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glass Technology Center 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harmar Village Care Center 187 FTE
NAT-TCR Metropolitan Alloys Corporation 19.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Hill Manor 19.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-CTBRI30 19.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Maplewood at Stony Hill, LLC 19.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Moccasin Elementary 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE MKE-MILWAUKEE 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Workshop 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hacienda Wine Cellars 33 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: 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.