Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Sauereisen, Inc.

Pittsburgh, PA · ~29 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sauereisen, Inc. runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sauereisen, Inc.: 4.5 TCR = 136% of Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sauereisen, Inc. safety composite

Sauereisen, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Sauereisen, Inc.: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

Sauereisen, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Pittsburgh, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #33/40
  • PHOTO East Point
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: East Point (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sauereisen, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sauereisen, Inc. averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sauereisen, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=15.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Sauereisen, Inc. falls in its industry

530 Architectural coatings (i.e., establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 40 Architectural coatings (i.e., employers in Pennsylvania.

Sauereisen, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sauereisen, Inc.
Sauereisen, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sauereisen, Inc. has fewer employees than the Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) man median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2023 12.5 4.2 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 15.6 11.7 2 2 0
2019 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · PA · Pittsburgh

530 Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,170 employers in Pittsburgh, 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 East Point 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemionics 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brazil Powder 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plastic Masterbatch Center 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE BJE Reality 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dubois 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Castle Power Plant 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Wellsboro 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR United States Steel COrporation 15,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh- Oakland 14,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 13,900 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh-Oakland 13,208 FTE
NAT-TCR The Corners 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Crews Subaru of Charleston 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Alliance Store 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Legerity Rehab, LLC DBA Palm Garden Rehab 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE TPI Toa Alta 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Build to Suit Inc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1146 Lkq Mcallister Motors 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anawalt Lumber-Malibu 29 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, 2019, 2018, 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.