Platinum recovering from scrap and/or alloying purchased metals · Pennsylvania

Palmerton Facility

Palmerton, PA · ~115 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmerton Facility runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Platinum recovering from scrap and/or alloying purchased metals workplace, earning a grade D.

Palmerton Facility: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Platinum recovering from scrap and/or alloying purchased metals BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmerton Facility safety composite

Palmerton Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2018→2019

Palmerton Facility injury rate improved

Palmerton Facility's TCR fell 0.8 from 6.4 in 2018 to 5.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.4 · 2019=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331492 · Palmerton, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #20/25
  • PHOTO US Zinc - Millington
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Zinc - Millington (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmerton Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmerton Facility averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Platinum recovering from scrap and/or alloying purchased metals BLS benchmark).

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

Palmerton Facility TCR series: 2018=6.4 · 2019=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Palmerton Facility falls in its industry

132 Platinum recovering from scrap establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 25 Platinum recovering from scrap employers in Pennsylvania.

Palmerton Facility (115 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Palmerton Facility
Palmerton Facility (115 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Palmerton Facility has more employees than the Platinum recovering from scrap and/or al median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2019 5.7 4.9 7 0 0
2018 6.4 4.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331492 · PA · Palmerton

132 Platinum recovering from scrap and/or alloying purchased metals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 11 employers in Palmerton, 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 US Zinc - Millington 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMC Metals 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Material Sampling Technologies 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mastermelt 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE WNDOB Windsor Office Building 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penn Hills Service Center 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael F. Ronca & Sons, Inc. 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Zinc Recycling Corp - Palmerton 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmerton 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Structural Metal Fabricators, INC. 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Architectural Polymers 40 FTE
NAT-TCR New Carbon Company LLC - South Bend 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DP East Halifax 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR FORT MYERS 2931 Michigan Ave 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 2917 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nizhoni Health Systems LLC - Lawrence 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Footlocker.com, Inc. - Customization 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn Toledo/Perrysburg 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE CRI 115 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. 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.