Farm buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Qualex WPA@ Franklin

Franklin, PA · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Qualex WPA@ Franklin runs at 328% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Qualex WPA@ Franklin: 10.8 TCR = 328% of Farm buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Qualex WPA@ Franklin safety composite

Qualex WPA@ Franklin scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.6

2023→2024

Qualex WPA@ Franklin injury rate improved

Qualex WPA@ Franklin's TCR fell 12.6 from 17.1 in 2023 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=17.1 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332311 · Franklin, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 328% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/16
  • PHOTO CDC Metals, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CDC Metals, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Qualex WPA@ Franklin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Qualex WPA@ Franklin averages 10.8 TCR (328% of the Farm buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Qualex WPA@ Franklin TCR series: 2023=17.1 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Qualex WPA@ Franklin falls in its industry

393 Farm buildings, prefabricated establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 16 Farm buildings, prefabricated employers in Pennsylvania.

Qualex WPA@ Franklin (28 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Qualex WPA@ Franklin
Qualex WPA@ Franklin (28 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Qualex WPA@ Franklin has fewer employees than the Farm buildings, prefabricated metal, man median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2024 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 17.1 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332311 · PA · Franklin

393 Farm buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 43 employers in Franklin, 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 CDC Metals, Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Craig Industries 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Insulated Panel, LLC 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rubb Inc 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Masda Mushroom LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scenery Hill 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Production Fire and Safety LLC., DBA Ampro Strategic Alliance PA 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bethlehem Energy Center 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Visiting Nurses Association 896 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin Plant 2 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell Safety Products - Miller by Honeywell 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Joy Global Underground Plant 2 258 FTE
NAT-TCR WDM 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia Manufacturing Inc 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4402 - Marshalltown Truss Plant 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakefield Veterinary Group - 132 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE W & E Electric 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Faith Engineering, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE HEXPOL Akron 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wentzville, MO 28 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.