Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum · Pennsylvania

PennStar - Northampton

Northampton, PA · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PennStar - Northampton runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum workplace, earning a grade A.

PennStar - Northampton: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PennStar - Northampton safety composite

PennStar - Northampton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

PennStar - Northampton: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 3.02× in 2024

PennStar - Northampton's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 1.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324191 · Northampton, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #1/15
  • PHOTO Warminster Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Warminster Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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PennStar - Northampton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PennStar - Northampton averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum BLS benchmark).

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

PennStar - Northampton TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where PennStar - Northampton falls in its industry

171 Lubricating oils and greases, establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 15 Lubricating oils and greases, employers in Pennsylvania.

PennStar - Northampton (54 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate PennStar - Northampton
PennStar - Northampton (54 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.5

PennStar - Northampton has fewer employees than the Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324191 · PA · Northampton

171 Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 29 employers in Northampton, 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 Warminster Plant 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Afton Chemical Corporation - Houston, TX 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CITGO Petroleum Corporation 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BP Lubricants USA Inc. 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE TRIPLE-M-FARMS 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scrubgrass Reclamation Company L.P. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 269-NiSource-Washington PA-Service 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wagman Construction Inc. 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-LEHI 1,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZLEL 287 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3941 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR Horwith Trucks / Penn Truck Leasing 159 FTE
NAT-TCR Novartis GTx Durham 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Force Electrical Services 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TheBest Claims Solutions, Inc. Phoenix AZ 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville Metal Works Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Koax Corp 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Young Engineers 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE 14-OH 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Qualichem, Inc.- Plant 1 54 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. 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.