Cargo ship building · Pennsylvania

Philly Shipyard INC

Philadelphia, PA · ~929 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Philly Shipyard INC runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cargo ship building workplace, earning a grade C.

Philly Shipyard INC: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Cargo ship building BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Philly Shipyard INC safety composite

Philly Shipyard INC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

−1.3

2016→2024

Philly Shipyard INC injury rate improved

Philly Shipyard INC's TCR fell 1.3 from 4.3 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=4.0 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336611 · Philadelphia, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Vigor Marine - Portl…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 316 inj
  • SIZE ~929 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vigor Marine - Portland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Philly Shipyard INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Philly Shipyard INC averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Cargo ship building BLS benchmark).

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

Philly Shipyard INC TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=4 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Philly Shipyard INC falls in its industry

454 Cargo ship building establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Cargo ship building employers in Pennsylvania.

Philly Shipyard INC (929 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Philly Shipyard INC
Philly Shipyard INC (929 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Philly Shipyard INC has more employees than the Cargo ship building median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 3.0 2.5 47 0 0
2023 2.6 2.0 46 0 1
2022 2.4 2.1 31 0 0
2021 2.7 2.1 13 0 0
2020 2.1 1.3 5 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 3 0 0
2018 4.0 3.0 34 1 0
2017 5.2 3.9 74 0 0
2016 4.3 2.7 63 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336611 · PA · Philadelphia

454 Cargo ship building employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,431 employers in Philadelphia, 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 Vigor Marine - Portland 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stevens Towing Co., Inc. Shipyard 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 100 Mechanic St 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PWFD BLDG 9A/B 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Irvin Plant 928 FTE
STATE-SIZE MSA Safety Pittsburgh Manufacturing, LLC 930 FTE
STATE-SIZE PITTSBURGH PA 927 FTE
STATE-SIZE P.H. Glatfelter Company - Spring Grove 925 FTE
CITY-NEAR FIVE BELOW INC 19,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital of University of Pennsylvania 13,423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Hospital 9,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Campus 9,129 FTE
NAT-TCR Environment Control of Beachwood, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hosford 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Roquette America - Keokuk 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleveland, Oh Branch 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hattie Larlham Center for Children with Disabilities 929 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cameron Hill Bldg. 1-5, Garage - VSHP 929 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kysvl - Worldport Freight Facility 929 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Rose Hospital 929 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, 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.