Calendering textile products, apparel, and fabrics · Pennsylvania

Secant Group

Telford, PA · ~176 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Secant Group runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Calendering textile products, apparel, and fabrics workplace, earning a grade B.

Secant Group: 1.7 TCR = 53% of Calendering textile products, apparel, and fabrics BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Secant Group safety composite

Secant Group scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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)
C 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Secant Group held a steady TCR band

Secant Group's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.6 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.6 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313310 · Telford, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 53% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #2/17
  • PHOTO Valley Forge Fabrics
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~176 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valley Forge Fabrics (0.0 TCR gap)

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Secant Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Secant Group averages 1.7 TCR (53% of the Calendering textile products, apparel, and fabrics BLS benchmark).

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

Secant Group TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Secant Group falls in its industry

166 Calendering textile products, establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 17 Calendering textile products, employers in Pennsylvania.

Secant Group (176 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 Secant Group
Secant Group (176 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Secant Group has more employees than the Calendering textile products, apparel, a median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 1.8 1.8 3 0 0
2017 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2016 1.6 1.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313310 · PA · Telford

166 Calendering textile products, apparel, and fabrics employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 37 employers in Telford, 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 Valley Forge Fabrics 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Front Line Fabrics, Inc., DBA Wolfe Textiles 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Mills DBA TenCate Protective Fabrics - Finishing Plant 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barnhardt Manufacturing Company Griswoldville 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Swartley Bros. Engineers, Inc 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Renick Brothers Construction 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stryten Energy 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRIMM INDUSTRIES 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Draeger, Inc. - Telford 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fres-co System USA 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Community at Telford 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Draeger Medical Systems, Inc. - Telford 231 FTE
NAT-TCR KTL 53030 Decatur 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR thyssenkrupp Industrial Services - Toledo 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Atrenne Computing Solutions 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Norwesco St. Bonifacius 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vance DMB 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foote ICF 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic National Distributing Company 8 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAM Specialty Hospital of Victoria North 176 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.