Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap metal) manufacturing · Pennsylvania

PTR Baler & Compactor

Philadelphia, PA · ~208 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PTR Baler & Compactor runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap metal) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

PTR Baler & Compactor: 5.9 TCR = 178% of Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap metal) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PTR Baler & Compactor safety composite

PTR Baler & Compactor scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.9

2023→2024

PTR Baler & Compactor injury rate improved

PTR Baler & Compactor's TCR fell 3.9 from 7.8 in 2023 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.8 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333999 · Philadelphia, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 178% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Hebeler LLC.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~208 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hebeler LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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PTR Baler & Compactor in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PTR Baler & Compactor averages 5.9 TCR (178% of the Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap metal) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PTR Baler & Compactor TCR series: 2023=7.8 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where PTR Baler & Compactor falls in its industry

242 Baling machinery (e.g., paper, establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Baling machinery (e.g., paper, employers in Pennsylvania.

PTR Baler & Compactor (208 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate PTR Baler & Compactor
PTR Baler & Compactor (208 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.5

PTR Baler & Compactor has more employees than the Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap met median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 3.9 2.5 11 0 0
2023 7.8 7.8 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333999 · PA · Philadelphia

242 Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap metal) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,431 employers in Philadelphia, 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 Hebeler LLC. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creative Design & Machine, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blastec, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centrifugal Services - Industrial Processing Equipment 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Piramal Critical Care, LLC 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters-Bensalem 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cardone Ind Plant 11+12 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR FIVE BELOW INC 19,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital of University of Pennsylvania 13,423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Hospital 9,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Campus 9,129 FTE
NAT-TCR Vancouver Plant 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR S.J. Distributors LLC-Sacramento Warehouse 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fres-co System USA, Inc 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR South Port Square 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE SABIC Innovative Plastics US LLC 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Aviation - San Francisco 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Associates Asset Recovery, LLC 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 036 208 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.