Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins · Pennsylvania

Lehigh Valley

Bethlehem, PA · ~63 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lehigh Valley runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade A.

Lehigh Valley: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lehigh Valley safety composite

Lehigh Valley scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

Lehigh Valley held a steady TCR band

Lehigh Valley's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.6 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.6 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2021=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Bethlehem, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #5/24
  • PHOTO HPM
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HPM (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lehigh Valley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lehigh Valley averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS benchmark).

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

Lehigh Valley TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Lehigh Valley falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 24 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Pennsylvania.

Lehigh Valley (63 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lehigh Valley
Lehigh Valley (63 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Lehigh Valley has fewer employees than the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2021 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2016 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · PA · Bethlehem

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins 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 HPM 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingenia Polymers Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR A. Schulman Inc, Akron 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ampacet Corp Terre Haute 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hillandale Gettysburg LP DBA Hillandale Farms - Atlantic 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Rose Interior Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Oilfield Solutions 63 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 Crossroads Mobile Maintenance Michigan 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rehrig Pacific Company Dallas 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Coleman - GRKS 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Schenker Inc. (Kraft-Winchester) 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cordova Concrete, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloomington Best Western Plus 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Elite Environmental 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schaumburg Division 63 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: 2021, 2019, 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.