Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling · Pennsylvania

Retail East - Reading

Reading, PA · ~27 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Retail East - Reading runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade F.

Retail East - Reading: 7.1 TCR = 208% of Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Retail East - Reading safety composite

Retail East - Reading scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Retail East - Reading: 0.0 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2023

Retail East - Reading's TCR rose 7.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 7.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 208% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #15/29
  • PHOTO Meenan PA - Upper Da…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meenan PA - Upper Darby (0.0 TCR gap)

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Retail East - Reading in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Retail East - Reading averages 7.1 TCR (208% of the Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

Retail East - Reading TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=12.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=16.5 · 2023=7.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Retail East - Reading falls in its industry

366 Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 29 Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) employers in Pennsylvania.

Retail East - Reading (27 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 020406080100 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Retail East - Reading
Retail East - Reading (27 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Retail East - Reading has fewer employees than the Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, d median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2023 7.3 7.3 1 0 0
2022 16.5 11.0 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 12.5 0.0 3 0 0
2019 6.2 3.1 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · PA · Reading

366 Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Meenan PA - Upper Darby 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palmetto Propane, Fuels, and Ice, Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGas - ACE - Conroe, TX (PC) 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leffler Energy - Lancaster 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Feeney's Wholesale Nursery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunterstown Power Generation 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panda Liberty 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE LMBE Project Company LLC 27 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 Belmont Care Center Ltd. Co. d/b/a The Belmont at Twin Creeks 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mack Studios 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fastco Industries, Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency at the Park 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Superior Plus - 0713 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Plus - 3702 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cicero 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 124 Gwyn Dr 27 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.