Seat cushions, foam plastics (except polystyrene), manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Penn Foam Corp.

Allentown, PA · ~66 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Penn Foam Corp. runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Seat cushions, foam plastics (except polystyrene), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Penn Foam Corp.: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Seat cushions, foam plastics (except polystyrene), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Penn Foam Corp. safety composite

Penn Foam Corp. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−6.2

2016→2024

Penn Foam Corp. injury rate improved

Penn Foam Corp.'s TCR fell 6.2 from 8.1 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.1 · 2019=2.4 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=10.0 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Allentown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #20/24
  • PHOTO Compsys Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Compsys Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Penn Foam Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Penn Foam Corp. averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Seat cushions, foam plastics (except polystyrene), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Penn Foam Corp. TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2019=2.4 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=10 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Penn Foam Corp. falls in its industry

474 Seat cushions, foam plastics ( establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 24 Seat cushions, foam plastics ( employers in Pennsylvania.

Penn Foam Corp. (66 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Penn Foam Corp.
Penn Foam Corp. (66 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Penn Foam Corp. has fewer employees than the Seat cushions, foam plastics (except pol median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2023 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2022 10.0 5.0 6 0 0
2021 6.2 3.1 4 0 0
2019 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2016 8.1 1.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · PA · Allentown

474 Seat cushions, foam plastics (except polystyrene), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, 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 Compsys Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Innocor Foam Technologies - ACP, Inc. - Terrell 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMT Materials, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACA-Tennessee 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bream Orchards Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donegal Egg 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE George E Ley Company 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE PG Mehoopany Site Construction 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR Fairview Mills, Fairview 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hogan Glass, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Norfolk Nfk 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 05 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Okray Family Farms, Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hubbard-Hall, Waterbury 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smithers-Oasis Stow St 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #9 66 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, 2019, 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.