Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) bodies manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Royal West - Shoemakersville

Shoemakersville, PA · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Royal West - Shoemakersville runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) bodies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Royal West - Shoemakersville: 8.0 TCR = 243% of Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) bodies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Royal West - Shoemakersville safety composite

Royal West - Shoemakersville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

−6.3

2017→2019

Royal West - Shoemakersville injury rate improved

Royal West - Shoemakersville's TCR fell 6.3 from 12.9 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.9 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Shoemakersville, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 243% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #38/49
  • PHOTO Dakota Bodies Watert…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dakota Bodies Watertown (0.0 TCR gap)

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Royal West - Shoemakersville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Royal West - Shoemakersville averages 8.0 TCR (243% of the Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) bodies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Royal West - Shoemakersville TCR series: 2017=12.9 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Royal West - Shoemakersville falls in its industry

470 Special purpose highway vehicl establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 49 Special purpose highway vehicl employers in Pennsylvania.

Royal West - Shoemakersville (27 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Royal West - Shoemakersville
Royal West - Shoemakersville (27 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Royal West - Shoemakersville has fewer employees than the Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., f median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2019 6.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 12.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · PA · Shoemakersville

470 Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) bodies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 14 employers in Shoemakersville, 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 Dakota Bodies Watertown 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Independent Protection Company dba Turtle Top 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knapheide Equipment Company 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knapheide Truck Equipment Company 8.1 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 National Distribution Centers LLC-200 Logistics Drive 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Materion - Reading 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Materion - Shoemakersville 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shoemakersville plant 115 FTE
NAT-TCR West Marine Store #1292 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Waverly Plastics 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR D.G.M., Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 16 - Meriden Terminal 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE State of Tennessee Department of General Services - Warehouse 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redfield plant 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Channel Chemical Corporation 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE ci Metal Fabrication 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.