Abrasive products manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc

Pittsburgh, PA · ~139 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Abrasive products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc: 5.7 TCR = 174% of Abrasive products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc safety composite

Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc: 5.8 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2018

Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc's TCR rose 0.5 from 5.8 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327910 · Pittsburgh, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 174% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Radiac Abrasives
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Radiac Abrasives (0.0 TCR gap)

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Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc averages 5.7 TCR (174% of the Abrasive products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc falls in its industry

90 Abrasive products manufacturin establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Abrasive products manufacturin employers in Pennsylvania.

Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc (139 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc
Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc (139 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc has more employees than the Abrasive products manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2018 6.3 1.4 8 1 0
2017 5.1 3.6 6 1 0
2016 5.8 3.6 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327910 · PA · Pittsburgh

90 Abrasive products 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 Radiac Abrasives 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sure-Foot Industries Corp. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Abrasives 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CGW Abrasives 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Caddick Utilities LLC 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tudi Mechanical Systems, Inc. 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winter Gardens 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE FlagZone LLC 139 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 Covington (Lacov) 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Oldham Street 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacksonville - MB 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 3495-11DA203 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Four Points By Sheraton Miami 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE IDABEL 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE East 78th Plant 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norcross Container 139 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.