Drywall and related building materials distributor · Pennsylvania

Kempf Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Kempf Philadelphia runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drywall and related building materials distributor workplace, earning a grade D.

Kempf Philadelphia: 3.8 TCR = 174% of Drywall and related building materials distributor BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kempf Philadelphia safety composite

Kempf Philadelphia scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−5.5

2022→2024

Kempf Philadelphia injury rate improved

Kempf Philadelphia's TCR fell 5.5 from 5.5 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.5 · 2023=6.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · Philadelphia, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 174% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/54
  • PHOTO Clanton
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clanton (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Pennsylvania employers → · Look up another →

Kempf Philadelphia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kempf Philadelphia averages 3.8 TCR (174% of the Drywall and related building materials distributor BLS benchmark).

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

Kempf Philadelphia TCR series: 2022=5.5 · 2023=6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Kempf Philadelphia falls in its industry

1,225 Drywall and related building m establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 54 Drywall and related building m employers in Pennsylvania.

Kempf Philadelphia (41 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 020406080100120 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kempf Philadelphia
Kempf Philadelphia (41 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Kempf Philadelphia has more employees than the Drywall and related building materials d median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 6.0 6.0 3 0 0
2022 5.5 5.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · PA · Philadelphia

1,225 Drywall and related building materials distributor employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,431 employers in Philadelphia, 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 Clanton 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TBM HARDWOODS INC. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodinville - BMD 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ROYAL PLYWOOD COMPANY LLC 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SpecialtyEgg 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE PA Operations 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.B. Mill & Fabricating Inc. 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miller Environmental, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR FIVE BELOW INC 19,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital of University of Pennsylvania 13,423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Hospital 9,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Campus 9,129 FTE
NAT-TCR Rudolph Foods Company New Hebron 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North Bellmore 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Job Creation LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Glenn Rieder Residential LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Norfolk 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE GTS Kent 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clayton NJ 41 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. 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.