Precision tools, machinist's (except optical), manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Reading, PA · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc. runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Precision tools, machinist's (except optical), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc.: 4.7 TCR = 142% of Precision tools, machinist's (except optical), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc. safety composite

Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 18.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=18.7 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332216 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 142% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/14
  • PHOTO Edge Manufacturing, …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Edge Manufacturing, Incl (0.0 TCR gap)

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Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc. averages 4.7 TCR (142% of the Precision tools, machinist's (except optical), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=18.7 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc. falls in its industry

174 Precision tools, machinist's ( establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 14 Precision tools, machinist's ( employers in Pennsylvania.

Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Precision tools, machinist's (except opt median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 18.7 6.2 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332216 · PA · Reading

174 Precision tools, machinist's (except optical), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Edge Manufacturing, Incl 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office - 01 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Knife and Saw, Inc, 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wheelabrator Frackville Energy Company Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Welders Supply Company 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE K/S Renewal Systems, LLC 430 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoemaker Construction Company 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR Saint Paul Police Impound Lot 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Outpost Natural Foods-State 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Office of Aging and Disabled Services 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR LeachGarner 49 Pearl 4.7 TCR

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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.