Machine shops · Pennsylvania

Plouse Machine Shop Inc.

Highspire, PA · ~74 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plouse Machine Shop Inc. runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade B.

Plouse Machine Shop Inc.: 2.4 TCR = 71% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plouse Machine Shop Inc. safety composite

Plouse Machine Shop Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Plouse Machine Shop Inc. held a steady TCR band

Plouse Machine Shop Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 1.6 in 2021 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.6 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Highspire, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 71% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #46/177
  • PHOTO LES GRIBSKOV CO DBA …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LES GRIBSKOV CO DBA ISCO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plouse Machine Shop Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plouse Machine Shop Inc. averages 2.4 TCR (71% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Plouse Machine Shop Inc. TCR series: 2021=1.6 · 2022=3 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Plouse Machine Shop Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 177 Machine shops employers in Pennsylvania.

Plouse Machine Shop Inc. (74 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Plouse Machine Shop Inc.
Plouse Machine Shop Inc. (74 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Plouse Machine Shop Inc. has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2022 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2021 1.6 1.6 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · PA · Highspire

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 4 employers in Highspire, 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 LES GRIBSKOV CO DBA ISCO 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR P&F Machining Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Machining & Fabricating, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Inventors Shop LLC 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE J. D. MUSHROOMS INC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE R . W . Sauder Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Manheim Egg 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edison Service Center 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plouse Precision Manufacturing 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osage Piping & Fabricating, Inc. 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dempsey Uniform and Linen Supply Inc Highspire 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Maxton, NC - 2120 Hwy 71 N 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hazel 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrells Facility 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR PotlatchDeltic Manufacturing LLC, Ola 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paramount Senior Living at Polaris 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prima Power Laserdyne 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building Material Specialties, Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center - EVS 74 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. 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.