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

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.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
1
worker fatalities on record

Grade compares Philly Shipyard INC's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 9 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Philly Shipyard INC's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 336611.

Where Philly Shipyard INC falls in its industry

488 Cargo ship building establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

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 has an average TCR of 3.1, which is 94% of the industry average (3.3) for Cargo ship building. This is better than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for Philly Shipyard INC

Between 2016 and 2024, Philly Shipyard INC's Total Case Rate improved from 4.3 to 3.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 30% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2019, at a TCR of 1.4, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 5.2, a spread of 3.8 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 9 reporting years, Philly Shipyard INC recorded 316 total injuries and illnesses and 1 fatality. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 9-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Philly Shipyard INC's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 336611 - Cargo ship building.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

39 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 3,090,030 hours worked = 2.52 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Philly Shipyard INC (this establishment) 3.09 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg
Fishing boat, commercial, building industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 336611
Pennsylvania state avg (all industries) 5.06 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Philly Shipyard INC to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

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

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Philly Shipyard INC's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Cargo ship building peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 94% of the Cargo ship building benchmark, Philly Shipyard INC reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Cargo ship building sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Philly Shipyard INC's safety grade?
Philly Shipyard INC has a safety grade of C (Average Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.1 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Cargo ship building.
How many injuries has Philly Shipyard INC reported?
Philly Shipyard INC has reported 316 total injuries and 1 fatalities across 9 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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.

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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.