Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Penflex Corp.

Gilbertsville, PA · ~71 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Penflex Corp. runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Penflex Corp.: 4.8 TCR = 147% of Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Penflex Corp. safety composite

Penflex Corp. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Penflex Corp.: 2.5 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Penflex Corp.'s TCR rose 1.5 from 2.5 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Gilbertsville, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 147% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #28/52
  • PHOTO KSM Industries Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KSM Industries Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Penflex Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Penflex Corp. averages 4.8 TCR (147% of the Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Penflex Corp. TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2018=7.4 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Penflex Corp. falls in its industry

827 Tubing, flexible metal, manufa establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 52 Tubing, flexible metal, manufa employers in Pennsylvania.

Penflex Corp. (71 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Penflex Corp.
Penflex Corp. (71 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Penflex Corp. has more employees than the Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2024 3.9 0.0 3 0 0
2023 9.9 1.4 7 0 0
2022 2.9 0.0 4 0 0
2021 5.9 0.0 4 0 0
2020 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2018 7.4 3.0 5 0 0
2016 2.5 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · PA · Gilbertsville

827 Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 17 employers in Gilbertsville, 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 KSM Industries Inc 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR EDECO LLC, dba SMF-SC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lisega Kodak 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR IN-FAB Inc. 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE FarmaceuticalRX LLC PA 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hazleton 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.S. Mowery & Sons, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hazleton Site Contractors 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR 106463 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR GIANT FOOD STORES 6463 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR FlagZone LLC 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR S04283 - Gilbertsville Hauling 95 FTE
NAT-TCR The Fountains at Greenbriar 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Spring Meadow Nursery Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR J.H. Berra Construction Co., Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CityScape Roofing, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE US Concrete Products Corporation 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Island Transportation Corp - Brooklyn 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minneapolis - BMD 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southpark 71 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, 2018, 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.