Bleaches, formulated for household use, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

James Austin Company

Mars, PA · ~134 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

James Austin Company runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bleaches, formulated for household use, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

James Austin Company: 8.3 TCR = 250% of Bleaches, formulated for household use, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James Austin Company safety composite

James Austin Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−8.0

2018→2024

James Austin Company injury rate improved

James Austin Company's TCR fell 8.0 from 10.6 in 2018 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 28.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.6 · 2019=3.1 · 2021=28.0 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325612 · Mars, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 250% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Angelus Shoe Polish …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Angelus Shoe Polish Company, Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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James Austin Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows James Austin Company averages 8.3 TCR (250% of the Bleaches, formulated for household use, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

James Austin Company TCR series: 2018=10.6 · 2019=3.1 · 2021=28 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=2 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where James Austin Company falls in its industry

143 Bleaches, formulated for house establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Bleaches, formulated for house employers in Pennsylvania.

James Austin Company (134 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate James Austin Company
James Austin Company (134 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.9

James Austin Company has more employees than the Bleaches, formulated for household use, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 2.6 1.3 4 0 0
2023 2.0 0.7 3 0 0
2022 3.4 2.7 5 0 0
2021 28.0 28.0 3 0 0
2019 3.1 3.1 4 0 0
2018 10.6 9.2 12 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325612 · PA · Mars

143 Bleaches, formulated for household use, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 25 employers in Mars, 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 Angelus Shoe Polish Company, Inc 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Labs 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marquis Extraction Technology LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Kingswood Company 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE MARSA Inc. 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Home ReNu 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE east coast hoist inc 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elverson Whitford 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vogel Disposal Company, Inc.. 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR MHY Family Services 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1048-ENPHG-MARSHALL TOWNSHIP 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Arrow Exterminators 3037 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Deschutes Wilderness Therapy 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 5175 - Syracuse 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR FreshPoint South Florida 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mojave Unified School District 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avera Mother Joseph Manor Retirement Community 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE DS Pipe and Steel 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gillespie & Powers, Inc. 134 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.