Retail Hardware Stores · Pennsylvania

Reading, Pa #00162

Reading, PA · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Reading, Pa #00162 runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Reading, Pa #00162: 6.5 TCR = 192% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Reading, Pa #00162 safety composite

Reading, Pa #00162 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 24.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Reading, Pa #00162: 0.0 → 24.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 24.1 TCR · DART/TCR 3.68× in 2023

Reading, Pa #00162's TCR rose 24.1 from 0.0 in 2019 to 24.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 3.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 192% of ind

  • DART 24.1 DART
  • RANK #26/47
  • PHOTO McLendons
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McLendons (0.0 TCR gap)

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Reading, Pa #00162 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Reading, Pa #00162 averages 6.5 TCR (192% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Reading, Pa #00162 TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=24.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Reading, Pa #00162 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 47 Retail Hardware Stores employers in Pennsylvania.

Reading, Pa #00162 (18 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 Reading, Pa #00162
Reading, Pa #00162 (18 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Reading, Pa #00162 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 24.1 24.1 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.6 8.6 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · PA · Reading

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR McLendons 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seright's Ace Hardware Coeur d'Alene 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LOS ANGELES, CA #03060 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0076 - Independence, MO 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wheelabrator Frackville Energy Company Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Welders Supply Company 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE K/S Renewal Systems, LLC 430 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoemaker Construction Company 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR MeadowRidge 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cw-Fellowship Vill-Pom 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gresham Store 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Eads Fence 6.5 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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