Explosives (except ammunition, fireworks) merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Kittanning

Kittanning, PA · ~42 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kittanning runs at 373% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Explosives (except ammunition, fireworks) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Kittanning: 8.2 TCR = 373% of Explosives (except ammunition, fireworks) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kittanning safety composite

Kittanning scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Kittanning: 8.5 → 17.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2024

Kittanning's TCR rose 8.9 from 8.5 in 2016 to 17.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Kittanning, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 373% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #41/43
  • PHOTO REN498
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: REN498 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kittanning in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kittanning averages 8.2 TCR (373% of the Explosives (except ammunition, fireworks) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Kittanning TCR series: 2016=8.5 · 2017=6 · 2018=8 · 2020=4 · 2021=7.7 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=17.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Kittanning falls in its industry

766 Explosives (except ammunition, establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 43 Explosives (except ammunition, employers in Pennsylvania.

Kittanning (42 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kittanning
Kittanning (42 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Kittanning has more employees than the Explosives (except ammunition, fireworks median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 17.4 8.7 8 0 0
2023 10.2 4.1 5 0 0
2022 3.9 2.0 2 0 0
2021 7.7 3.8 4 0 0
2020 4.0 0.0 2 0 0
2018 8.0 4.0 4 0 0
2017 6.0 4.0 3 0 0
2016 8.5 4.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · PA · Kittanning

766 Explosives (except ammunition, fireworks) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 27 employers in Kittanning, 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 REN498 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seeler Industries 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barton Solvents, Inc. DM 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wausau Chemical Corporation 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Needhams Mushroom Farm 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE KSS Sales 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hopewell Organics, LLC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACMH Hospital 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1820 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1820 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR Progressive Workshop of Armstrong County Inc 154 FTE
NAT-TCR Tampa Brass & Aluminum Corp 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Canby 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Kingman Parks & Recreation 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Big D Floor Covering Supplies 21 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hurltburt Field 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adkins Energy LLC 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridgeville Feedmill 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inver Grove Heights Lube Plant 42 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, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.