General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Pennsylvania

Metzler Brothers Transport

Duncansville, PA · ~29 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metzler Brothers Transport runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Metzler Brothers Transport: 5.0 TCR = 112% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metzler Brothers Transport safety composite

Metzler Brothers Transport scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Metzler Brothers Transport: 0.0 → 17.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2023

Metzler Brothers Transport's TCR rose 17.2 from 0.0 in 2020 to 17.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Duncansville, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 112% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #119/172
  • PHOTO MPS Trucking LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MPS Trucking LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metzler Brothers Transport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metzler Brothers Transport averages 5.0 TCR (112% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Metzler Brothers Transport TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=17.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Metzler Brothers Transport falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #119 safest of 172 General freight trucking, long employers in Pennsylvania.

Metzler Brothers Transport (29 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Metzler Brothers Transport
Metzler Brothers Transport (29 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Metzler Brothers Transport has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 17.2 7.4 2 5 0
2022 2.9 2.9 8 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · PA · Duncansville

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 36 employers in Duncansville, 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 MPS Trucking LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hardinger Transfer 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Central Transport, Inc. Headquarter 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bybee 5.0 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 WM 4348 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Veeder-Root Company 281 FTE
CITY-NEAR Veeder-Root (Altoona) 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4348 266 FTE
NAT-TCR Englewood M&S 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Component Manufacturing Company - Plant 1 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR H & H Foradory Construction, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Payroll Direct, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Justice Quality Foods #2 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houck Machine Company 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dri-Air Industries, Inc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bralco Metals 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.