Coating metals and metal products for the trade · Pennsylvania

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services)

Name: Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services) Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

New Castle, PA · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services) runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services): 1.0 TCR = 30% of Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services) safety composite

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services) held a steady TCR band

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services)'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · New Castle, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 30% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #2/45
PHOTO Praxair Surface Tech…
BOOK 5y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services) averages 1.0 TCR (30% of the Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services) TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services) falls in its industry

646 Coating metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

Grade A

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 45 Coating metals and metal produ employers in Pennsylvania.

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services) (18 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Laser Services) has fewer employees than the Coating metals and metal products for th median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	4.9	4.9	1
2017	0.0	0.0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · PA · New Castle

646 Coating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 91 employers in New Castle, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc	HOUSTON, TX	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PST Maine	BIDDEFORD, ME	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1942 CPS Houston	BAYTOWN, TX	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Specialty Coating Systems Indianapolis	INDIANAPOLIS, IN	0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Wheelabrator Frackville Energy Company Inc.	FRACKVILLE	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Welders Supply Company	ERIE	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	K/S Renewal Systems, LLC 430	NORRISTOWN	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Shoemaker Construction Company	W. CONSHOHOCKEN	18 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UPMC Jameson	New Castle	941 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DON	New Castle	805 FTE
CITY-NEAR	New Castle	New Castle	534 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 2287	New Castle	399 FTE
NAT-TCR	ABC Cutting Contractors, Inc.	Indianapolis, IN	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Robinson CUSD #2	Robinson, IL	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Elite Apple Company, LLC	Sparta, MI	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Honeywell Electronic Chemicals - Bryan	Bryan, TX	1.0 TCR

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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.