Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Pennsylvania

Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc.

New Kensington, PA · ~20 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc. runs at 534% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc.: 17.6 TCR = 534% of Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc. safety composite

Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc.: 4.9 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 28.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2022

Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc.'s TCR rose 6.7 from 4.9 in 2016 to 11.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 28.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · New Kensington, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 534% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #33/35
  • PHOTO Mattco Forge Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mattco Forge Inc. (0.4 TCR gap)

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Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc. averages 17.6 TCR (534% of the Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.9 · 2017=21.5 · 2018=28.4 · 2019=23.5 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=26.7 · 2022=11.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc. falls in its industry

241 Cold forgings made from purcha establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 35 Cold forgings made from purcha employers in Pennsylvania.

Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc.
Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc. has fewer employees than the Cold forgings made from purchased iron o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2022 11.6 5.8 1 1 0
2021 26.7 6.7 3 1 0
2020 6.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 23.5 0.0 4 0 0
2018 28.4 28.4 5 0 0
2017 21.5 16.1 3 1 0
2016 4.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · PA · New Kensington

241 Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 33 employers in New Kensington, 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 Mattco Forge Inc. 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Forge, Inc 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ulven Forging Incorporated 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR D&H Industries - Main Facility 15.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE VanBlarcom 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matterns Hatchery 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookfield Renewable - Holtwood 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springdale 3,4,5 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Polyconcept North America 947 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leedsworld, Inc. 868 FTE
CITY-NEAR Philips 312 New Kensington 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR Innomotics, LLC 478 FTE
NAT-TCR 046410-Nlr-Park Hill Sta 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Thunderbird Senior Living 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Micke Farms 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR South Ogden Post Acute 17.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Double S Dirt Works, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE filtrec corporation 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cadman- Port of Portland 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE FeeCorp Corporation 20 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: 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.