Full service restaurants · Pennsylvania

Max & Erma's Erie

Erie, PA · ~67 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Max & Erma's Erie runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Full service restaurants workplace, earning a grade D.

Max & Erma's Erie: 5.5 TCR = 185% of Full service restaurants BLS 3.0 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Max & Erma's Erie safety composite

Max & Erma's Erie scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Max & Erma's Erie: 0.0 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2019

Max & Erma's Erie's TCR rose 6.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · Erie, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 185% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #85/131
  • PHOTO Highland Grill
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Highland Grill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Max & Erma's Erie in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Max & Erma's Erie averages 5.5 TCR (185% of the Full service restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

Max & Erma's Erie TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=6.7 · BLS 3.0

Where Max & Erma's Erie falls in its industry

1,091 Full service restaurants establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #85 safest of 131 Full service restaurants employers in Pennsylvania.

Max & Erma's Erie (67 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Max & Erma's Erie
Max & Erma's Erie (67 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Max & Erma's Erie has more employees than the Full service restaurants median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2019 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2018 6.4 3.2 2 0 0
2017 9.1 3.0 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · PA · Erie

1,091 Full service restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 473 employers in Erie, 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 Highland Grill 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rise + Roam Bakery and Pizzeria 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Il Brutto 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR louis swiss bakery 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Metzler Forest Products LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE MC OpCo, LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seward Operating, LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Utilities Lancaster 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Erie, PA 5,403 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hamot 2,675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabtec-Erie 2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL 2,135 FTE
NAT-TCR RELCO Locomotives, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Griffin Transportation 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR GLC Merrillville 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Geeleher Enterprises, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE MRP Polaris 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leicht Transfer & Storage - Donald 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial Insulating Glass Company, Sarasota, FL 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Disposal - Lee County Hauling 67 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: 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.