Stampings (except automotive, cans, coins), metal, unfinished, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Keystone Friction Hinge Co

South Williamsport, PA · ~45 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Keystone Friction Hinge Co runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Stampings (except automotive, cans, coins), metal, unfinished, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Keystone Friction Hinge Co: 5.7 TCR = 172% of Stampings (except automotive, cans, coins), metal, unfinished, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Keystone Friction Hinge Co safety composite

Keystone Friction Hinge Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Keystone Friction Hinge Co: 6.3 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024

Keystone Friction Hinge Co's TCR rose 1.8 from 6.3 in 2018 to 8.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332119 · South Williamsport, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 172% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #18/26
  • PHOTO Hobson & Motzer Inc
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hobson & Motzer Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Keystone Friction Hinge Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Keystone Friction Hinge Co averages 5.7 TCR (172% of the Stampings (except automotive, cans, coins), metal, unfinished, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Keystone Friction Hinge Co TCR series: 2018=6.3 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=5 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Keystone Friction Hinge Co falls in its industry

477 Stampings (except automotive, establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 26 Stampings (except automotive, employers in Pennsylvania.

Keystone Friction Hinge Co (45 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 Keystone Friction Hinge Co
Keystone Friction Hinge Co (45 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Keystone Friction Hinge Co has fewer employees than the Stampings (except automotive, cans, coin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 8.1 5.4 3 0 0
2023 5.2 2.6 2 0 0
2022 5.1 2.6 2 0 0
2020 5.0 2.5 2 0 0
2019 4.4 2.2 2 0 0
2018 6.3 2.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332119 · PA · South Williamsport

477 Stampings (except automotive, cans, coins), metal, unfinished, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 4 employers in South Williamsport, 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 Hobson & Motzer Inc 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spincraft (WI) 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gasket Manufacturing Engineerig, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sundstrom Pressed Steel Co. 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE DocHouse 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Florin Farms Hatchery, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Risser's Poultry, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beiter's Home Center 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR R & J Ertel, Inc. 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR T160/660 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Globe Pipe Hanger Products, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EMS 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fister Distribution, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Design Imaging HQ 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Progressive Materials, LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coreslab Structures (Orlando) Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seattle 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE GCS, Inc. 45 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, 2020, 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.