Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) · Pennsylvania

La Plume

La Plume, PA · ~16 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

La Plume runs at 247% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) workplace, earning a grade F.

La Plume: 9.4 TCR = 247% of Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

La Plume safety composite

La Plume scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

La Plume: 3.7 → 15.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.6× in 2020

La Plume's TCR rose 11.4 from 3.7 in 2019 to 15.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624310 · La Plume, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 247% of ind

  • DART 15.1 DART
  • RANK #92/109
  • PHOTO Madras Thrift Store
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Madras Thrift Store (0.0 TCR gap)

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La Plume in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows La Plume averages 9.4 TCR (247% of the Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) BLS benchmark).

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

La Plume TCR series: 2019=3.7 · 2020=15.1 · BLS 3.8

Where La Plume falls in its industry

1,455 Sheltered workshops (i.e., wor establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #92 safest of 109 Sheltered workshops (i.e., wor employers in Pennsylvania.

La Plume (16 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate La Plume
La Plume (16 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

La Plume has fewer employees than the Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experien median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2020 15.1 15.1 1 0 0
2019 3.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624310 · PA · La Plume

1,455 Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 6 employers in La Plume, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Madras Thrift Store 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill Industries University Parkway 11 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillsboro Outlet 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tilghman Store 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 245-NiSource-Monaca PA - Technical Trng Ctr 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Western Pennsylvania 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brickley Construction Inc. 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT KEYSTONE COLLEGE 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT KEYSTONE COLL STEAK AND SHAKE 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT KEYSTONE COLLEGE COLL GREEN 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT KEYSTONE COLLEGE FAC 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dde5 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR St Joseph's Bluffs 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - Denver/Near the Tech Center 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Warren Distribution SouthEast 9.4 TCR

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: 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.