Plastics basic shapes (e.g., film, rod, sheet, sheeting, tubing) merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Lehigh Valley Plastics

Bethlehem, PA · ~91 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lehigh Valley Plastics runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plastics basic shapes (e.g., film, rod, sheet, sheeting, tubing) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Lehigh Valley Plastics: 2.1 TCR = 96% of Plastics basic shapes (e.g., film, rod, sheet, sheeting, tubing) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lehigh Valley Plastics safety composite

Lehigh Valley Plastics scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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 Plastics held a steady TCR band

Lehigh Valley Plastics's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.7 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=3.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424610 · Bethlehem, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 96% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO tk Engineered Plasti…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: tk Engineered Plastics - Yonkers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lehigh Valley Plastics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lehigh Valley Plastics averages 2.1 TCR (96% of the Plastics basic shapes (e.g., film, rod, sheet, sheeting, tubing) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Lehigh Valley Plastics TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=3.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Lehigh Valley Plastics falls in its industry

101 Plastics basic shapes (e.g., f establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Plastics basic shapes (e.g., f employers in Pennsylvania.

Lehigh Valley Plastics (91 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 0100200300 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Lehigh Valley Plastics
Lehigh Valley Plastics (91 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Lehigh Valley Plastics has more employees than the Plastics basic shapes (e.g., film, rod, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.4 1.7 4 0 0
2016 2.7 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424610 · PA · Bethlehem

101 Plastics basic shapes (e.g., film, rod, sheet, sheeting, tubing) merchant wholesalers 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 tk Engineered Plastics - Yonkers 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR United States Plastic Corporation 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polymershapes - Los Angeles 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CDC 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Altomontes Enterprises Ltd 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9288-285 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trader Joe's 0624 Pittsburgh 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9288-289 91 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 C M Richey Electrical Contractors, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR FGS Giddings West 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR T. E. Roberts, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterloo Service Center 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avanator.com LLC 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legend Companies 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brandywine Living at Livingston 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rieke Office Interiors 91 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, 2023, 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.