Bulk storage tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company

Stoystown, PA · ~147 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bulk storage tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company: 5.6 TCR = 170% of Bulk storage tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company safety composite

Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company: 2.8 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2023

Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company's TCR rose 4.7 from 2.8 in 2019 to 7.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Stoystown, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 170% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #14/20
  • PHOTO SPVG Tomahawk
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~147 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SPVG Tomahawk (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company averages 5.6 TCR (170% of the Bulk storage tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company TCR series: 2019=2.8 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company falls in its industry

355 Bulk storage tanks, heavy gaug establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 20 Bulk storage tanks, heavy gaug employers in Pennsylvania.

Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company (147 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company
Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company (147 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company has more employees than the Bulk storage tanks, heavy gauge metal, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 7.4 5.8 9 0 0
2022 5.7 5.0 8 0 0
2021 5.7 4.3 8 0 0
2020 6.5 2.2 9 0 0
2019 2.8 2.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · PA · Stoystown

355 Bulk storage tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 8 employers in Stoystown, 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 SPVG Tomahawk 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR KBK Industries, LLC Liberal 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Tank and Fabricating Corporation 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feldmeier Equipment Iowa 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lady Farms Inc, Pennsylvania 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mill Hall 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danella Construction Corporation of Pennsylvania 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cavan 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highland Tank, LLC 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somerset Steel Erection Company, Inc. 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office - 01 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riggs Industries, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-TCR Groendyke Transport - Denver 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tyler Pipe Company 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bethesda Hospital (HealthEast) 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR D&W Fine Pack, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crestwood Behavioral Health Center 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Classic Catering People 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE False Pass 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakewood #107 147 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.