Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Sign Shop

Orwigsburg, PA · ~52 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sign Shop runs at 419% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Sign Shop: 13.8 TCR = 419% of Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sign Shop safety composite

Sign Shop scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Sign Shop: 12.7 → 15.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2018

Sign Shop's TCR rose 2.7 from 12.7 in 2016 to 15.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Orwigsburg, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 419% of ind

  • DART 15.4 DART
  • RANK #16/16
  • PHOTO Service Neon Signs I…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Service Neon Signs Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sign Shop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sign Shop averages 13.8 TCR (419% of the Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sign Shop TCR series: 2016=12.7 · 2017=13.4 · 2018=15.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Sign Shop falls in its industry

405 Signs and signboards (except p establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #16 safest of 16 Signs and signboards (except p employers in Pennsylvania.

Sign Shop (52 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sign Shop
Sign Shop (52 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sign Shop has fewer employees than the Signs and signboards (except paper, pape median and a higher 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
2018 15.4 15.4 8 0 0
2017 13.4 11.5 7 0 0
2016 12.7 7.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · PA · Orwigsburg

405 Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 22 employers in Orwigsburg, 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 Service Neon Signs Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Image National, Inc. 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pride Neon, Inc 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DSA Phototech 15.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maitri Genetics 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Insa Shamokin Dam 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ethos Fairless Hills 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boyers Food Market Inc 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Environmental StoneWorks - Owrigsburg, PA 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Shalmet 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR 340 South Liberty St. 113 FTE
NAT-TCR Spee-Dee Delivery Service, Inc. - Aurora 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR South San Diego (Cacva) 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bluegrass 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Service Neon Signs Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pizza Blends Portland Oregon 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kannon Creek Assisted Living 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE County Market #467 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Hardwood Flooring 52 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.