Power steering pumps manufacturing · Pennsylvania

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc.

Hanover, PA · ~518 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc. runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Power steering pumps manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc.: 3.5 TCR = 66% of Power steering pumps manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc. safety composite

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−8.7

2017→2024

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc. injury rate improved

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc.'s TCR fell 8.7 from 10.8 in 2017 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.8 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · Hanover, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 66% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK P37
  • PHOTO SAF-HOLLAND, Inc. - …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 121 inj
  • SIZE ~518 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SAF-HOLLAND, Inc. - Dumas (0.0 TCR gap)

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R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc. averages 3.5 TCR (66% of the Power steering pumps manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc. TCR series: 2017=10.8 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 5.4

Where R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc. falls in its industry

134 Power steering pumps manufactu establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc. (518 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc.
R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc. (518 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc. has more employees than the Power steering pumps manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 2.1 0.5 13 0 0
2023 1.5 0.7 8 0 0
2022 1.4 0.6 7 0 0
2021 2.1 1.8 7 0 0
2020 3.4 3.4 19 0 0
2017 10.8 9.3 67 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · PA · Hanover

134 Power steering pumps manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 149 employers in Hanover, 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 SAF-HOLLAND, Inc. - Dumas 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chassix - Stephens 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR chassix - Montague 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hitachi Astemo 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fanatics - Easton 518 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corp : 3108-00 Logistics Admin 518 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Luke's Miners Hospital 518 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Dynamics OTS (Wilkes-Barre), LLC 517 FTE
CITY-NEAR CARTER DOOR & MILLWORK HUB 389 4,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanover Manufacturing Campus 1,446 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hanover 1,090 FTE
CITY-NEAR Snyders-Lance, Inc.- Hanover Manufacturing Facility 850 FTE
NAT-TCR Dfa Fluid - Franklin Ma 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kerry Rome 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1271 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1163 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glenview Innovation Center 518 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rancho Laguna Farms LLC 518 FTE
NAT-SIZE NA-US-CA-Lathrop-Harlan Rd-Manufacturing 518 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centerline Communications 518 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.