Erecting structural steel · Pennsylvania

Northern Valley Erectors

Kutztown, PA · ~22 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Valley Erectors runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Erecting structural steel workplace, earning a grade C.

Northern Valley Erectors: 2.7 TCR = 97% of Erecting structural steel BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Valley Erectors safety composite

Northern Valley Erectors scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Northern Valley Erectors: 6.0 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.76× in 2024

Northern Valley Erectors's TCR rose 1.4 from 6.0 in 2020 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Kutztown, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 97% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #11/37
  • PHOTO Skinner Tank Company
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Skinner Tank Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Valley Erectors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Valley Erectors averages 2.7 TCR (97% of the Erecting structural steel BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Valley Erectors TCR series: 2020=6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Northern Valley Erectors falls in its industry

705 Erecting structural steel establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 37 Erecting structural steel employers in Pennsylvania.

Northern Valley Erectors (22 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern Valley Erectors
Northern Valley Erectors (22 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Northern Valley Erectors has fewer employees than the Erecting structural steel median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2024 7.5 7.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.0 6.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · PA · Kutztown

705 Erecting structural steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 43 employers in Kutztown, 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 Skinner Tank Company 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harmon Steel Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Jersey Boom & Erectors, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR erin erectors and construction inc. 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dawson's Orchards 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kuhn Orchards, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giorgi Mushroom Farm 3 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Hope 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC 30 - Kutztown, PA 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advance Auto Parts DC 30 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jetson Specialty Marketing Services Inc 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR WIRE AND CABLE 253 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0641 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR KJ's Market #697 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingstree IGA #675 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1563 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE P&D Architectural Precast Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilmington Woodbine Street 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside Cancer Infusion Center 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mathew D Borcina Inc DBA MC Electric 22 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.