Printing, engraving, on paper products · Pennsylvania

S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville

Shoemakersville, PA · ~16 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Printing, engraving, on paper products workplace, earning a grade D.

S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Printing, engraving, on paper products BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville safety composite

S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville: 0.0 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville's TCR rose 9.2 from 0.0 in 2023 to 9.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Shoemakersville, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #76/110
  • PHOTO Harbor Graphics
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harbor Graphics (0.0 TCR gap)

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S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Printing, engraving, on paper products BLS benchmark).

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

S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=9.2 · BLS 3.3

Where S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville falls in its industry

2,001 Printing, engraving, on paper establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #76 safest of 110 Printing, engraving, on paper employers in Pennsylvania.

S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville (16 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville
S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville (16 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

S. Walter Packaging Shoemakersville has fewer employees than the Printing, engraving, on paper products median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 9.2 9.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · PA · Shoemakersville

2,001 Printing, engraving, on paper products 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Harbor Graphics 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westamerica Communications, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Windsor Marketing Group 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CastlePierce Corporation 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 245-NiSource-Monaca PA - Technical Trng Ctr 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Western Pennsylvania 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brickley Construction Inc. 16 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 Daytona Beverages, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Senior Services for South Sound 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Therapy Svcs Middleburg Hts 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4930 Rhinelander 4.6 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: 2024, 2023. 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.