Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills · Pennsylvania

Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA

Hazle Township, PA · ~87 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills workplace, earning a grade F.

Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA: 8.0 TCR = 242% of Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA safety composite

Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−6.0

2017→2020

Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA injury rate improved

Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA's TCR fell 6.0 from 12.0 in 2017 to 6.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.0 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Hazle Township, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 242% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #14/19
  • PHOTO Bekaert wilkes barre
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bekaert wilkes barre (0.1 TCR gap)

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Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA averages 8.0 TCR (242% 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 Products - Hazleton, PA TCR series: 2017=12 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA falls in its industry

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #14 safest of 19 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi employers in Pennsylvania.

Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA (87 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA
Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA (87 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA has more employees than the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills median and a higher 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
2020 6.0 5.0 6 0 0
2019 6.5 4.3 5 1 0
2018 7.5 6.5 7 0 0
2017 12.0 8.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · PA · Hazle Township

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 36 employers in Hazle Township, 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 Bekaert wilkes barre 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fenix LLC. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wirerope Works Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookfield Wire Company, Inc. 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adams County Nursery Inc 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handwerk Site Contractors 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1400 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE David M. Maines Associates, Inc. 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hazleton Distribution Center 972 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Hershey Co Hazleton 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9720 633 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hershey - Hazleton Plant 533 FTE
NAT-TCR 22 Mooney North 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Idaho Timber of Carthage 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR J Winery and Vineyards 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Manhattan Retail Store # 222 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE B & D Plumbing & Heating 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jefferson Facility 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town & Country Supermarket #3816 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vectren Corporation - AB Brown 87 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.