Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished · Pennsylvania

Lehigh Heavy forge Corp

Bethlehem, PA · ~197 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lehigh Heavy forge Corp runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Lehigh Heavy forge Corp: 8.7 TCR = 265% of Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lehigh Heavy forge Corp safety composite

Lehigh Heavy forge Corp scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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 8.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Lehigh Heavy forge Corp held a steady TCR band

Lehigh Heavy forge Corp's TCR held near 0.2 from 8.8 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.8 · 2024=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Bethlehem, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 265% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #28/35
  • PHOTO AGC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~197 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AGC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lehigh Heavy forge Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lehigh Heavy forge Corp averages 8.7 TCR (265% of the Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Lehigh Heavy forge Corp TCR series: 2016=8.8 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Lehigh Heavy forge Corp falls in its industry

241 Steel forgings made from purch establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 35 Steel forgings made from purch employers in Pennsylvania.

Lehigh Heavy forge Corp (197 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lehigh Heavy forge Corp
Lehigh Heavy forge Corp (197 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Lehigh Heavy forge Corp has more employees than the Steel forgings made from purchased steel median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2024 8.6 4.8 18 0 0
2016 8.8 8.8 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · PA · Bethlehem

241 Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 358 employers in Bethlehem, 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 AGC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Forge Tennessee LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterling Multi Products 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tekfor, Inc 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Holyoke Massachusetts 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE North American Packaging LLC. dba Econo-Pak 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rehrig Pacific Company Erie 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 5,338 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Physician's Group 3,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Muhlenberg 2,139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4087 2,105 FTE
NAT-TCR Bix Produce 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Roswell 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectro Coating Corp. 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sysco San Diego, Inc 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bethany St Joseph Care Center 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pillar Construction VA, MD, DC 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miller Transportation Bus Service 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE 482 Southeastern Illinois College 197 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.