Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Schmidt - Front St.

Chester, PA · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Schmidt - Front St. runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Schmidt - Front St.: 8.7 TCR = 265% of Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Schmidt - Front St. safety composite

Schmidt - Front St. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Schmidt - Front St. held a steady TCR band

Schmidt - Front St.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 8.9 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.9 · 2017=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Chester, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 265% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/20
  • PHOTO Stafco
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stafco (0.0 TCR gap)

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Schmidt - Front St. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Schmidt - Front St. averages 8.7 TCR (265% of the Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Schmidt - Front St. TCR series: 2016=8.9 · 2017=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Schmidt - Front St. falls in its industry

355 Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manu establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 20 Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manu employers in Pennsylvania.

Schmidt - Front St. (23 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Schmidt - Front St.
Schmidt - Front St. (23 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Schmidt - Front St. has fewer employees than the Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2017 8.6 0.0 2 0 0
2016 8.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · PA · Chester

355 Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 45 employers in Chester, 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 Stafco 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highland Tank, LLC (Manheim, PA) 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbiana Boiler Company, LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR VTEC A Division of SAS Global Corp 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mt. Parnell Fisheries Co. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hickory Run Energy, LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPV Fairview LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Corporate Office 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrah's Philadelphia Casino Racetrack 1,017 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Access Network 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHRG PHL/HQ 826 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHRG HQ 680 FTE
NAT-TCR Phoenix Air Gateway (Azphx) 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 021-MIL 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rws Tx Dallas Southwest 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Diversicare of Nicholasville 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tishler Industries Incorporated 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE TPC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0614 - Yuba City, Ca 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0533 - Yakima, Wa 23 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: 2017, 2016. 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.