Anodizing equipment manufacturing · Pennsylvania

SMS Group Inc

Pittsburgh, PA · ~922 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMS Group Inc runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Anodizing equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

SMS Group Inc: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Anodizing equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMS Group Inc safety composite

SMS Group Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−0.8

2020→2024

SMS Group Inc injury rate improved

SMS Group Inc's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.5 in 2020 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.5 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333249 · Pittsburgh, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #16/33
  • PHOTO MDC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 115 inj
  • SIZE ~922 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MDC (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMS Group Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMS Group Inc averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Anodizing equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SMS Group Inc TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=3 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where SMS Group Inc falls in its industry

448 Anodizing equipment manufactur establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 33 Anodizing equipment manufactur employers in Pennsylvania.

SMS Group Inc (922 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate SMS Group Inc
SMS Group Inc (922 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0

SMS Group Inc has more employees than the Anodizing equipment manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 1.8 1.2 22 1 0
2023 2.1 1.4 25 1 0
2022 3.0 1.7 29 1 0
2021 2.5 1.4 21 1 0
2020 2.5 1.4 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333249 · PA · Pittsburgh

448 Anodizing equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,170 employers in Pittsburgh, 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 MDC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Machine, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westec Plastics Corporation 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Headquarters 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Phillies 923 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2904-SAS-PA 924 FTE
STATE-SIZE Federated Investors - FIT 924 FTE
STATE-SIZE UPMC Memorial 924 FTE
CITY-NEAR United States Steel COrporation 15,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh- Oakland 14,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 13,900 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh-Oakland 13,208 FTE
NAT-TCR Dynacraft, a Paccar Company. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Dist Sub 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1214 Flushing 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR FEI, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE FL180 Palatka Paper 922 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lonza Houston 922 FTE
NAT-SIZE Murray Company 922 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group 922 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.