Lead Acid Battery Manufacturer · Delaware

PS - Middletown, DE Plant

Middletown, DE · ~232 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PS - Middletown, DE Plant runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lead Acid Battery Manufacturer workplace, earning a grade A.

PS - Middletown, DE Plant: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Lead Acid Battery Manufacturer BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PS - Middletown, DE Plant safety composite

PS - Middletown, DE Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

PS - Middletown, DE Plant: 0.9 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2018

PS - Middletown, DE Plant's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.9 in 2017 to 1.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335911 · Middletown, DE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK P65
  • PHOTO NEC Energy Solutions…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~232 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NEC Energy Solutions, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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PS - Middletown, DE Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PS - Middletown, DE Plant averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Lead Acid Battery Manufacturer BLS benchmark).

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

PS - Middletown, DE Plant TCR series: 2017=0.9 · 2018=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where PS - Middletown, DE Plant falls in its industry

161 Lead Acid Battery Manufacturer establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
PS - Middletown, DE Plant (232 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate PS - Middletown, DE Plant
PS - Middletown, DE Plant (232 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 2.1

PS - Middletown, DE Plant has more employees than the Lead Acid Battery Manufacturer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2018 1.9 1.9 5 0 0
2017 0.9 0.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335911 · DE · Middletown

161 Lead Acid Battery Manufacturer employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 66 employers in Middletown, DE · 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 NEC Energy Solutions, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Geneva IL 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florence SC DC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR EaglePicher Technologies - C Street 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 5436 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE A-Del Construction Company, Inc. 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlas Point 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westside Family Healthcare Inc. 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : PHL7 2,921 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - PHL7 2,706 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEL0000049 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - MIDDLETOWN 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3802 451 FTE
NAT-TCR Corporate 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ksi Tading Corp - 14nj 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Market Street Warehouse 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CCU 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE CNS BFL Clinic/Corporate Admin/Marketing 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Chester Manufacturing 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vern Lewis Welding 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE LEAVENWORTH 232 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: 2018, 2017. 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.