Courier Services Except by Air · Pennsylvania

Lancaster (Palan)

East Petersburg, PA · ~693 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lancaster (Palan) runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade D.

Lancaster (Palan): 8.4 TCR = 130% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lancaster (Palan) safety composite

Lancaster (Palan) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Lancaster (Palan): 6.4 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2018

Lancaster (Palan)'s TCR rose 4.4 from 6.4 in 2016 to 10.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · East Petersburg, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.4 · 130% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #136/243
  • PHOTO NYMAE - METRO QUEENS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 111 inj
  • SIZE ~693 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NYMAE - METRO QUEENS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lancaster (Palan) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lancaster (Palan) averages 8.4 TCR (130% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Lancaster (Palan) TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2017=8 · 2018=10.8 · BLS 6.5

Where Lancaster (Palan) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #136 safest of 243 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Pennsylvania.

Lancaster (Palan) (693 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Lancaster (Palan)
Lancaster (Palan) (693 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Lancaster (Palan) has more employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 10.8 5.3 52 3 0
2017 8.0 3.5 32 5 0
2016 6.4 3.3 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · PA · East Petersburg

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 18 employers in East Petersburg, 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 NYMAE - METRO QUEENS 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HIHLU - HONOLULU BUILDING 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR OKARD - ARDMORE 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WYCOD - CODY 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Living Branches 693 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reese Plant 692 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Refining Company 692 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Penn Power 695 FTE
CITY-NEAR PALAN - LANCASTER 718 FTE
CITY-NEAR Warfel Construction Company 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allen Imports LTD Inc 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richter Precision Inc. 159 FTE
NAT-TCR Portland (Ororl) 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sedalia (Mosed) 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Junction (Cogra) 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Salamanca Lumber Co., Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glasgow 693 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic National Distributing Company 5 693 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clearwater Paper Lewistion PPD 693 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anmed Health North Campus 693 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: 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.