Electric furnace transformers manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Magnetic Specialties Inc.

Telford, PA · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Magnetic Specialties Inc. runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electric furnace transformers manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Magnetic Specialties Inc.: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Electric furnace transformers manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Magnetic Specialties Inc. safety composite

Magnetic Specialties Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Magnetic Specialties Inc.: 4.6 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2024

Magnetic Specialties Inc.'s TCR rose 1.0 from 4.6 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335311 · Telford, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Pioneer Transformer …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pioneer Transformer Co. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Magnetic Specialties Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Magnetic Specialties Inc. averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Electric furnace transformers manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Magnetic Specialties Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2019=12 · 2020=0 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Magnetic Specialties Inc. falls in its industry

141 Electric furnace transformers establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Electric furnace transformers employers in Pennsylvania.

Magnetic Specialties Inc. (20 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Magnetic Specialties Inc.
Magnetic Specialties Inc. (20 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Magnetic Specialties Inc. has fewer employees than the Electric furnace transformers manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 5.6 5.6 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 12.0 12.0 2 0 0
2016 4.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335311 · PA · Telford

141 Electric furnace transformers manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 37 employers in Telford, 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 Pioneer Transformer Co. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ritz Instrument Transformers, Inc 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Simplex Inc 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR GRUBER TECHNICAL, INC 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE VanBlarcom 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matterns Hatchery 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookfield Renewable - Holtwood 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springdale 3,4,5 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Draeger, Inc. - Telford 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fres-co System USA 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Community at Telford 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Draeger Medical Systems, Inc. - Telford 231 FTE
NAT-TCR Arbor Walk Healthcare Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Duke Pacific Inc 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Element Resources 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Swiss Construction LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE DH Pace Company Inc dba Ankmar - Loveland 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville Branch 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vermont Wireform Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peak Resources Inc. 20 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, 2020, 2019, 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.