Employer · Pennsylvania

Palmerton

Palmerton, PA · ~91 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmerton runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

Palmerton: 1.7 TCR = 51% of industry BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmerton safety composite

Palmerton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

Palmerton: 1.7 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2024

Palmerton's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.7 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331492 · Palmerton, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #4/25
  • PHOTO US Zinc - Houston Me…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Zinc - Houston Metal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmerton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmerton averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Palmerton TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Palmerton falls in its industry

132 industry establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #4 safest of 25 industry employers in Pennsylvania.

Palmerton (91 employees, TCR 1.7) 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
Palmerton (91 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Palmerton has more employees than the industry median and a lower 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
2024 2.1 1.1 2 0 0
2023 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 1.7 0.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331492 · PA · Palmerton

132 industry 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 - Houston Metal 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Purity Zinc Metals LLC 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dillon Gage Refinery 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jostens - Owatonna STN 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sher-Rockee Mushroom Farms,LLC 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Norwood Company - Malvern PA 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexander Building Construction 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grimm Construction, Inc. 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmerton Facility 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Zinc Recycling Corp - Palmerton 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Structural Metal Fabricators, INC. 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Architectural Polymers 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Ballco Manufacturing, Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR BioUrja Renewables, LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR OC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dee Cramer 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sauer Health Care 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tampa Honda 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brandywine Living at Middlebrook Crossing 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dto Logistics LLC 91 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, 2016. 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.