Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills · Pennsylvania

Insteel Wire PAW

Hazleton, PA · ~99 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Insteel Wire PAW runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills workplace, earning a grade B.

Insteel Wire PAW: 2.5 TCR = 74% of Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Insteel Wire PAW safety composite

Insteel Wire PAW scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Insteel Wire PAW: 1.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.59× in 2022

Insteel Wire PAW's TCR rose 2.9 from 1.0 in 2021 to 3.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Hazleton, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 74% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #3/19
  • PHOTO Insteel Wire Product…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Insteel Wire Products - Jacksonville, FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Insteel Wire PAW in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Insteel Wire PAW averages 2.5 TCR (74% of the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS benchmark).

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

Insteel Wire PAW TCR series: 2021=1 · 2022=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Insteel Wire PAW falls in its industry

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 19 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi employers in Pennsylvania.

Insteel Wire PAW (99 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Insteel Wire PAW
Insteel Wire PAW (99 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Insteel Wire PAW has more employees than the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2022 3.9 3.9 4 0 0
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · PA · Hazleton

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 79 employers in Hazleton, 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 Insteel Wire Products - Jacksonville, FL 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bekaert Van Buren (BKVB) 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nelson Wire & Steel 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire Products NCW 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Landmark Builders Inc 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1025 - BELFOR National Team PA 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE 950 East Main St. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Field Specialists - 1 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AVP1 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Case Ready Hazleton PA 872 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton 796 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Hazleton 722 FTE
NAT-TCR AceAvant Concrete Const. Co. Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dawson GP Oil Refinery 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 30047 - Capstone Awg Goodletsville 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 115869-Mia-County Line Anx 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6925-OGG 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2967-MN157 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2967-MA121 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3253 Family Fare (Patrick St, Rapid City, Sd) 99 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: 2022, 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.