Coating metals and metal products for the trade · Pennsylvania

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray)

New Castle, PA · ~34 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray) runs at 17% 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. (Thermal Spray): 0.6 TCR = 17% of Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray) safety composite

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% 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. (Thermal Spray) held a steady TCR band

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray)'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/45
  • PHOTO Oerlikon Balzers Coa…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray) averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray) TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray) falls in its industry

646 Coating metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 45 Coating metals and metal produ employers in Pennsylvania.

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray) (34 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray)
Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray) (34 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray) 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BlueScope Coated Products / Metal Coaters 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AZZ Galvanizing - Dixon 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt & Whitney Automation 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Didden Greenhouse 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Dairy 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.W. Sauder Inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Jameson 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR DON 805 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Castle 534 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2287 399 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Ansgar Mill 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cordis a Cardinal Health Company 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ciox Health - Bluegrass Office 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CARS Recon Inc Charlotte 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE CARS Recon Inc Birmingham A 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE G and L Brock Construction Co 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bolton & Menk - Ramsey 34 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: 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.