561210 Facilities Support Services · Pennsylvania

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, PA · ~13 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lehigh University runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical 561210 Facilities Support Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Lehigh University: 4.5 TCR = 173% of 561210 Facilities Support Services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lehigh University safety composite

Lehigh University scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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)
F 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

Lehigh University: 0.0 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Lehigh University's TCR rose 13.2 from 0.0 in 2019 to 13.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561210 · Bethlehem, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 173% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/25
  • PHOTO SHELL PENNCHEM - C10
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SHELL PENNCHEM - C10 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lehigh University in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lehigh University averages 4.5 TCR (173% of the 561210 Facilities Support Services BLS benchmark).

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

Lehigh University TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=4.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=13.2 · BLS 2.6

Where Lehigh University falls in its industry

757 561210 Facilities Support Serv establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 25 561210 Facilities Support Serv employers in Pennsylvania.

Lehigh University (13 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lehigh University
Lehigh University (13 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Lehigh University has fewer employees than the 561210 Facilities Support Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 13.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561210 · PA · Bethlehem

757 561210 Facilities Support Services 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR SHELL PENNCHEM - C10 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DMS - WRIGHT PATTERSON #033 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 000006786 - NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - FACILITIES MANAGEMENT EVANSTON 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 196 952 - GEO WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE-ADELANTO EAST 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ludwig Drilling, LLC 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE XPER Coatings Division 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weir, Burgettstown 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastikos Medical LLC. 13 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 Chino, Ca 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tlc Family Care-Az 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Knoll Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chemical Products Corporation 4.5 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: 2024, 2023, 2020, 2019. 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.