Residential for-sale builders · Pennsylvania

Kay Builders

Allentown, PA · ~142 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kay Builders runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Residential for-sale builders workplace, earning a grade D.

Kay Builders: 6.2 TCR = 163% of Residential for-sale builders BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kay Builders safety composite

Kay Builders scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−1.0

2021→2024

Kay Builders injury rate improved

Kay Builders's TCR fell 1.0 from 5.0 in 2021 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.0 · 2022=8.7 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236117 · Allentown, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 163% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #10/16
  • PHOTO DAIRY FARMS
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DAIRY FARMS (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kay Builders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kay Builders averages 6.2 TCR (163% of the Residential for-sale builders BLS benchmark).

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

Kay Builders TCR series: 2021=5 · 2022=8.7 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Kay Builders falls in its industry

341 Residential for-sale builders establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 16 Residential for-sale builders employers in Pennsylvania.

Kay Builders (142 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kay Builders
Kay Builders (142 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Kay Builders has more employees than the Residential for-sale builders median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 3.9 2.0 4 0 0
2023 7.2 3.2 9 0 0
2022 8.7 2.9 15 0 0
2021 5.0 1.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236117 · PA · Allentown

341 Residential for-sale builders employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, 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 DAIRY FARMS 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forino Co., LP 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denver Design Build 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sands Building Group 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brunner Island 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franjo Construction 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smucker Company 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE MADIV 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DLD7 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Acres Elementary 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hollingsworth LHM Fort Worth 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bushel Boy - Owatonna 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE YMCA in Shoreview 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DCY1 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DWA5 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Safeware Inc. 142 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.