Fire Truck Manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Ladder Tower

Ephrata, PA · ~72 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ladder Tower runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fire Truck Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ladder Tower: 4.6 TCR = 139% of Fire Truck Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ladder Tower safety composite

Ladder Tower scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Ladder Tower: 0.0 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2024

Ladder Tower's TCR rose 9.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336120 · Ephrata, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO PACCAR Parts - Louis…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PACCAR Parts - Louisville (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ladder Tower in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ladder Tower averages 4.6 TCR (139% of the Fire Truck Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ladder Tower TCR series: 2016=0 · 2024=9.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Ladder Tower falls in its industry

124 Fire Truck Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Fire Truck Manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Ladder Tower (72 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ladder Tower
Ladder Tower (72 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ladder Tower has fewer employees than the Fire Truck Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 9.2 5.7 6 2 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336120 · PA · Ephrata

124 Fire Truck Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 75 employers in Ephrata, 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 PACCAR Parts - Louisville 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gillig LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Test and Development Center 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crane Carrier Company, LLC 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Esbenshade Mount Joy 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maple Lawn Associates 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Middletown Egg 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ken Davis Mushroom Farms 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ephrata Community Hospital 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR Four Seasons Produce, Inc. 553 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2340 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2340 354 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 057 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 009 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hajoca 705 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nicolet Plastics 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bay Crest Care Center 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ctehd - Pratt Whitney Dlo -10449 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE D68 Tampa 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marc Glassman Inc 74WO 72 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, 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.