Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown

Lewistown, PA · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown runs at 516% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown: 11.4 TCR = 516% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown safety composite

Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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 11.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown: 8.8 → 17.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown's TCR rose 8.2 from 8.8 in 2019 to 17.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Lewistown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 516% of ind

  • DART 11.4 DART
  • RANK #56/62
  • PHOTO American Recycling LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Recycling LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown averages 11.4 TCR (516% of the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown TCR series: 2019=8.8 · 2020=11.5 · 2021=8 · 2024=17.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 62 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Pennsylvania.

Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown (40 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown
Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown (40 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Joe Krentzman & Son Lewistown has more employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 17.1 11.4 9 0 0
2021 8.0 8.0 3 0 0
2020 11.5 8.6 3 1 0
2019 8.8 8.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · PA · Lewistown

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 47 employers in Lewistown, 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 American Recycling LLC 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR J&J Pallet Solutions, Inc. 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Metal Recycling Minneapolis 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TKC 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE CNB Mushroom, LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASA Mushroom LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Conard-Pyle Co. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Greenhouses, LLC -PA 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEISINGER LEWISTOWN HOSPITAL 1,014 FTE
CITY-NEAR LEWISTOWN HOSPITAL 975 FTE
CITY-NEAR First Quality Retail Services, LLC 699 FTE
CITY-NEAR First Quality Baby Products NE 423 FTE
NAT-TCR Pap-R Products (Martinsville) 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR VNA Care Hospice 3 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gardena Hauling - Republic Services 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1303 - Cambridge 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nelson County Sheriff's Department 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conwaste Recogido Mayaguez 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE CFS Taller Mantenimiento Equipo Pesado Gurabo 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Long Brothers of Summerfield, Inc 40 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, 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.