Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility, van), assembled on purchased chassis · Pennsylvania

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant

Somerset, PA · ~87 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility, van), assembled on purchased chassis workplace, earning a grade C.

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant: 3.6 TCR = 108% of Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility, van), assembled on purchased chassis BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant safety composite

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant: 3.1 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant's TCR rose 1.5 from 3.1 in 2022 to 4.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Somerset, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/49
  • PHOTO Northland Equipment
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northland Equipment (0.0 TCR gap)

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Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant averages 3.6 TCR (108% of the Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility, van), assembled on purchased chassis BLS benchmark).

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

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant TCR series: 2022=3.1 · 2023=3 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant falls in its industry

470 Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dum establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 49 Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dum employers in Pennsylvania.

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant (87 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant
Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant (87 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc - Dump Plant has more employees than the Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2024 4.6 0.0 4 0 0
2023 3.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 3.1 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · PA · Somerset

470 Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility, van), assembled on purchased chassis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 53 employers in Somerset, 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 Northland Equipment 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Constellium 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HMC P-3 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Truck One Source - Union Grove, WI 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adams County Nursery Inc 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handwerk Site Contractors 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1400 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE David M. Maines Associates, Inc. 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Somerset 664 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somerset Hospital 617 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeler Fleet Solutions - Somerset 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6795-86022B0199 332 FTE
NAT-TCR Medical Office Building #1 MCSA 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR JVS Masonry LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR American Plumbing of Sarasota, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gates House 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Carrington Nursing Center 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ivy Park of Wellington 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cobblestone Golf Course 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Towhee Club 87 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.