Fire Truck Manufacturer · Pennsylvania

Smeal - Ephrata

Ephrata, PA · ~62 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smeal - Ephrata runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fire Truck Manufacturer workplace, earning a grade D.

Smeal - Ephrata: 5.5 TCR = 166% of Fire Truck Manufacturer BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smeal - Ephrata safety composite

Smeal - Ephrata scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Smeal - Ephrata: 1.6 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2023

Smeal - Ephrata's TCR rose 5.1 from 1.6 in 2021 to 6.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Ephrata, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #10/25
  • PHOTO Thunderstone LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thunderstone LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smeal - Ephrata in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smeal - Ephrata averages 5.5 TCR (166% of the Fire Truck Manufacturer BLS benchmark).

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

Smeal - Ephrata TCR series: 2021=1.6 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Smeal - Ephrata falls in its industry

474 Fire Truck Manufacturer establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 25 Fire Truck Manufacturer employers in Pennsylvania.

Smeal - Ephrata (62 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Smeal - Ephrata
Smeal - Ephrata (62 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Smeal - Ephrata has fewer employees than the Fire Truck Manufacturer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2023 6.8 4.1 5 0 0
2022 8.1 1.6 5 0 0
2021 1.6 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · PA · Ephrata

474 Fire Truck Manufacturer employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 75 employers in Ephrata, 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 Thunderstone LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bull Moose Heavy Haul, Inc. dba XL Specialized Trailers 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAC Waste Trailer, Inc 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Engines Company, Inc. EBT Production Facility 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Specialty Egg 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGC Flat Glass 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.S. Cumby 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poole Anderson Construction 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ephrata Community Hospital 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR Four Seasons Produce, Inc. 553 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2340 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2340 354 FTE
NAT-TCR Middlewoods of Newington 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR FAYETTEVILLE 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 9025-35 Engineering 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MAIN 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marshall Steel, Inc. 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rossini NA 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE FW PERRY proTECH 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Veritiv Operating Company - NJ043 62 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.