Firebrick, clay refractories, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC

Clarence, PA · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC runs at 544% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Firebrick, clay refractories, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC: 17.9 TCR = 544% of Firebrick, clay refractories, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC safety composite

Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC held a steady TCR band

Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC's TCR held near 0.3 from 18.5 in 2017 to 18.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 18.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=18.5 · 2023=17.2 · 2024=18.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Clarence, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.9 · 544% of ind

  • DART 12.1 DART
  • RANK #35/36
  • PHOTO Alsey Refractories C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alsey Refractories Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC averages 17.9 TCR (544% of the Firebrick, clay refractories, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC TCR series: 2017=18.5 · 2023=17.2 · 2024=18.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC falls in its industry

307 Firebrick, clay refractories, establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 36 Firebrick, clay refractories, employers in Pennsylvania.

Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC (29 employees, TCR 17.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC
Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC (29 employees, TCR 17.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC has fewer employees than the Firebrick, clay refractories, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 18.2 12.1 3 0 0
2023 17.2 10.3 5 0 0
2017 18.5 14.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · PA · Clarence

307 Firebrick, clay refractories, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 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 Alsey Refractories Company 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harmar Plant 19.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advent Industries, LLC 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mercury Mosaics 16.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE BJE Reality 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dubois 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Castle Power Plant 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Wellsboro 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Fwh LLC 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Pacific Fence LLC DBA Northwest Fence 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0911 - Blackstone and Nees Ave 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Waseca - Police Department 17.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holmgren Way Warehouse 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toshiba Business Solutions - Morrisville 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Chicago Midway 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toshiba Business Solutions - Amherst 29 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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