Semi-trailer manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer Plant

Somerset, PA · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer Plant runs at 299% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Semi-trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer Plant: 9.9 TCR = 299% of Semi-trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer Plant safety composite

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2022→2024

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer Plant injury rate improved

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer Plant's TCR fell 3.3 from 7.6 in 2022 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.6 · 2023=17.6 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 299% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/25
  • PHOTO Charmac Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Charmac Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer 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. - Trailer Plant averages 9.9 TCR (299% of the Semi-trailer manufacturing 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. - Trailer Plant TCR series: 2022=7.6 · 2023=17.6 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

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

474 Semi-trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #21 safest of 25 Semi-trailer manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer Plant (41 employees, TCR 9.9) 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 Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer Plant
Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer Plant (41 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer Plant has fewer employees than the Semi-trailer manufacturing median and a higher 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
2024 4.3 0.0 2 0 0
2023 17.6 3.5 5 0 0
2022 7.6 7.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · PA · Somerset

474 Semi-trailer manufacturing 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 Charmac Inc 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vail Health Hospital 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAT CV Braking Components, LLC - Gardena 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Little Falls Operations 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SpecialtyEgg 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE PA Operations 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.B. Mill & Fabricating Inc. 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miller Environmental, Inc. 41 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 Police Department 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Franz Bakery Springfield Division - Medford Depot and Outlet 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Polyurethane Machinery Corp 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Merchants Force, Inc. 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Core Health & Fitness - Lake Forest 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Knudson Lumber Co. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Distributors - Salina 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Floral Distributors, Inc. 41 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.