Machine shops · Pennsylvania

Shorts tool & mfg inc.

Saegertown, PA · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shorts tool & mfg inc. runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade A.

Shorts tool & mfg inc.: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shorts tool & mfg inc. safety composite

Shorts tool & mfg inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.8

2016→2021

Shorts tool & mfg inc. injury rate improved

Shorts tool & mfg inc.'s TCR fell 3.8 from 3.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Saegertown, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/177
  • PHOTO S & S TOOL AND MACHI…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S & S TOOL AND MACHINE CO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shorts tool & mfg inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shorts tool & mfg inc. averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Shorts tool & mfg inc. TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Shorts tool & mfg inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 177 Machine shops employers in Pennsylvania.

Shorts tool & mfg inc. (25 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Shorts tool & mfg inc.
Shorts tool & mfg inc. (25 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Shorts tool & mfg inc. has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.8 3.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · PA · Saegertown

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 15 employers in Saegertown, 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 S & S TOOL AND MACHINE CO 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartsgrove Machine, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hansen's Welding, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 1 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer New Holland NHL1 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunterstown Power Generation 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Producer 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warren Electric Cooperative, Inc. 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greenleaf Corporation 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR LORD Corporation - Saegertown 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maclean Saegertown, LLC 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR MacLean Fogg Component Solutions Saegertown 148 FTE
NAT-TCR Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation (227-150) 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Newstream Enterprises LLC - Chestnut 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint-Gobain Hoosick Falls 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Guest Supply Corona, California 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Save-A-Lot Labelle - 3937 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tapemation Machining Inc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duluth Shop and Fleet 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colorado Bend 1 Power 25 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.