Zirconium and zirconium alloy bar, rod, billet, sheet, strip, and tubing made from purchased metals or scrap · Pennsylvania
Specialty Metals Plant
Blairsville, PA · ~304 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 3.1
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Specialty Metals Plant runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Zirconium and zirconium alloy bar, rod, billet, sheet, strip, and tubing made from purchased metals or scrap workplace, earning a grade C.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 3.1
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 21
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Specialty Metals Plant's OSHA Total Case Rate of 3.1 to the Zirconium and zirconium alloy bar, rod, billet, sheet, strip, and tubing made from purchased metals or scrap BLS benchmark of 3.3 (95% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Specialty Metals Plant's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Specialty Metals Plant falls in its industry
118 Zirconium and zirconium alloy establishmentsSafer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.
Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 15 Zirconium and zirconium alloy employers in Pennsylvania.
Trend analysis for Specialty Metals Plant
Between 2017 and 2020, Specialty Metals Plant's Total Case Rate worsened from 1.8 to 2.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 58% increase across 3 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 1.8, while 2018 saw the highest rate, at 4.9, a spread of 3.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, Specialty Metals Plant recorded 21 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 21 injuries, 8 illnesses shown on this page for Specialty Metals Plant are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 331491 - Zirconium and zirconium alloy bar, rod, billet, sheet, strip, and tubing made from purchased metals or scrap.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
3 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 572,992 hours worked = 1.05 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Specialty Metals Plant (this establishment) | 3.15 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Bar, nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copper), made from purchased metals in wire drawing plants or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing, or extruding plants industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 331491 |
| Pennsylvania state avg (all industries) | 5.06 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Specialty Metals Plant to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2020: 8 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 15 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 7 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 6 reportable incidents · 5 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 4.9 | 0.7 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Specialty Metals Plant's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Zirconium and zirconium alloy bar, rod, billet, sheet, strip, and tubing made from purchased metals or scrap peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 95% of the Zirconium and zirconium alloy bar, rod, billet, sheet, strip, and tubing made from purchased metals or scrap benchmark, Specialty Metals Plant reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Zirconium and zirconium alloy bar, rod, billet, sheet, strip, and tubing made from purchased metals or scrap sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.