Mailboxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

McShane Welding Co

Erie, PA · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McShane Welding Co runs at 750% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mailboxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

McShane Welding Co: 24.7 TCR = 750% of Mailboxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McShane Welding Co safety composite

McShane Welding Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 30.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

McShane Welding Co: 18.6 → 30.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 30.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2021

McShane Welding Co's TCR rose 12.2 from 18.6 in 2017 to 30.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · Erie, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 24.7 · 750% of ind

  • DART 30.8 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO E-Pak Manufacturing,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: E-Pak Manufacturing, Llc. (2.0 TCR gap)

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McShane Welding Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McShane Welding Co averages 24.7 TCR (750% of the Mailboxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

McShane Welding Co TCR series: 2017=18.6 · 2021=30.8 · BLS 3.3

Where McShane Welding Co falls in its industry

175 Mailboxes, light gauge metal, establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 Mailboxes, light gauge metal, employers in Pennsylvania.

McShane Welding Co (29 employees, TCR 24.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate McShane Welding Co
McShane Welding Co (29 employees, TCR 24.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

McShane Welding Co has fewer employees than the Mailboxes, light gauge metal, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 30.8 30.8 8 0 0
2017 18.6 0.0 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · PA · Erie

175 Mailboxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing 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 E-Pak Manufacturing, Llc. 22.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Container Solutions, LLC 27.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bulldog Battery North/PBF 27.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Material Handling Equipment LLC 18.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE BJE Reality 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dubois 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Castle Power Plant 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Wellsboro 29 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 CRI - East Ohio 24.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bulloch Gin Inc 24.7 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #56 24.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Atria Rancho Mirage 24.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Terstep Company, Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn North Quail Springs 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Obrien Sixty dba Holiday Inn Express & Suites 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Total Fire 141 29 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, 2017. 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.