Commercial building construction general contractors · Pennsylvania

Penn First

Bala Cynwyd, PA · ~44 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Penn First runs at 10% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Penn First: 0.3 TCR = 10% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Penn First safety composite

Penn First scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Penn First held a steady TCR band

Penn First's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Bala Cynwyd, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 10% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/251
  • PHOTO Perlo Construction
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Perlo Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Penn First in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Penn First averages 0.3 TCR (10% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Penn First TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.9

Where Penn First falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 251 Commercial building constructi employers in Pennsylvania.

Penn First (44 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Penn First
Penn First (44 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Penn First has fewer employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · PA · Bala Cynwyd

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 43 employers in Bala Cynwyd, 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 Perlo Construction 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gilbane Building Company Milwaukee 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gilbane Building Company Albany 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARCO National Holdings, Inc. 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milton Grove Egg 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Donegal Egg 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESSC West Shore Service Center 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUNSC Sunbury Service Center 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maxim Healthcare - Philadelphia 054 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR Open Systems Healthcare - Bala 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR L.F. Driscoll 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR LF Driscoll 265 FTE
NAT-TCR Mike Krebbs Construction 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HoneywellWA05 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Northern Group Home 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hyatt Place Jacksonville St. Johns Town Center 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Electric Service 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snake River Produce Co., LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cowboy Moving and Storage 44 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.