Power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, gas, oil), electric · Pennsylvania

New Castle Power Plant

West Pittsburg, PA · ~29 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Castle Power Plant runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, gas, oil), electric workplace, earning a grade D.

New Castle Power Plant: 2.0 TCR = 168% of Power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, gas, oil), electric BLS 1.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Castle Power Plant safety composite

New Castle Power Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

New Castle Power Plant: 0.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

New Castle Power Plant's TCR rose 3.7 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221112 · West Pittsburg, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.0 · 168% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #33/46
  • PHOTO Wolfskill Energy Cen…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wolfskill Energy Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Castle Power Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Castle Power Plant averages 2.0 TCR (168% of the Power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, gas, oil), electric BLS benchmark).

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

New Castle Power Plant TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 1.2

Where New Castle Power Plant falls in its industry

846 Power generation, fossil fuel establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 46 Power generation, fossil fuel employers in Pennsylvania.

New Castle Power Plant (29 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate New Castle Power Plant
New Castle Power Plant (29 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5

New Castle Power Plant has fewer employees than the Power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 6.5 6.5 1 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221112 · PA · West Pittsburg

846 Power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, gas, oil), electric employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 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 Wolfskill Energy Center 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Escalante Generating Station 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00560 SMITHFIELD SVC CTR 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 300A 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE BJE Reality 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dubois 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Wellsboro 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Fuel Distribution Oil City Servicenter 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Castle Generating Station 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Scherzinger Drilling, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MKB Construction 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Traverse City Branch 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 2700 Southwest Fwy 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cotton Gin 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE J & F Construction Inc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZZ Crowley Powder Coat 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCabe's Landscape Construction 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, 2019. 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.