Machine shops · Pennsylvania

H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc.

Apollo, PA · ~27 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc. runs at 302% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc.: 10.0 TCR = 302% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc. safety composite

H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc.: 12.4 → 13.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc.'s TCR rose 1.3 from 12.4 in 2019 to 13.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Apollo, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 302% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #161/177
  • PHOTO Hydrojet Services, I…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hydrojet Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc. averages 10.0 TCR (302% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc. TCR series: 2019=12.4 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=13.5 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=13.7 · 2024=13.7 · BLS 3.3

Where H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #161 safest of 177 Machine shops employers in Pennsylvania.

H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc. (27 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc.
H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc. (27 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

H.W. Nicholson Welding & Mfg. Inc. has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 13.7 6.8 4 0 0
2023 13.7 3.4 4 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2021 13.5 3.4 4 0 0
2020 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2019 12.4 9.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · PA · Apollo

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 11 employers in Apollo, 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 Hydrojet Services, Inc. 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR F.H. PETERSON MACHINE CORP. 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jewell Hudgens Inc 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vickers Engineering 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Feeney's Wholesale Nursery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunterstown Power Generation 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panda Liberty 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE LMBE Project Company LLC 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Life Services - Apollo 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR QLS Apollo 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Composidie, Inc. 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR McCutcheon Enterprises, Inc 97 FTE
NAT-TCR Hull Cooperative Association 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH055 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carolina Care Health and Rehabilitation 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pivotal Health Solutions Watertown 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cisco Brothers High Point 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA MO Saint Louis 708470 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Louis Shop MO FXFE-STLS 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Luis Obispo CA FXFE-SLO 27 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. 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.