Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit

Blairsville, PA · ~49 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit: 4.5 TCR = 136% of Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit safety composite

Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit: 3.6 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2023

Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit's TCR rose 1.2 from 3.6 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333612 · Blairsville, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK P25
  • PHOTO Overton Chicago Gear…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Overton Chicago Gear - Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=7 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit falls in its industry

106 Gears, power transmission (exc establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit (49 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit
Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit (49 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit has fewer employees than the Gears, power transmission (except aircra 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
2023 4.8 2.4 1 1 0
2022 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2021 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2020 4.1 2.0 2 0 0
2019 5.7 1.9 2 1 0
2018 7.0 3.5 4 0 0
2017 5.4 1.8 3 0 0
2016 3.6 3.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333612 · PA · Blairsville

106 Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 35 employers in Blairsville, 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 Overton Chicago Gear - Chicago 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avon Gear & Engineering Co 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niagara Gear Corporation 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edgerton Gear, Inc. 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bonnie Brae Fruit Farms, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE R & L Orchard Co. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vallorani Mushrooms 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Story of PA- Smithfield (AWH) 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Specialty Metals Plant 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westinghouse Electric Company - Specialty Metals Plant 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5356 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5356 215 FTE
NAT-TCR Pace International Wenatchee 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoe Palace Corporation 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 5235 Skylake 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brockton Neighborhood Health Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE John H Hampshire Inc 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE 085-Lubbock/26th St 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Options Family & Behavior Services-Burnsville 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE American House - Kentwood 49 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.