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
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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.

Specialty Metals Plant: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Zirconium and zirconium alloy bar, rod, billet, sheet, strip, and tubing made from purchased metals or scrap BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Specialty Metals Plant safety composite

Specialty Metals Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

Specialty Metals Plant: 1.8 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2020

Specialty Metals Plant's TCR rose 1.0 from 1.8 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331491 · Blairsville, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #7/13
  • PHOTO Goldman Titanium, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~304 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goldman Titanium, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Specialty Metals Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Specialty Metals Plant averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Zirconium and zirconium alloy bar, rod, billet, sheet, strip, and tubing made from purchased metals or scrap BLS benchmark).

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

Specialty Metals Plant TCR series: 2017=1.8 · 2018=4.9 · 2020=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Specialty Metals Plant falls in its industry

113 Zirconium and zirconium alloy establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 13 Zirconium and zirconium alloy employers in Pennsylvania.

Specialty Metals Plant (304 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Specialty Metals Plant
Specialty Metals Plant (304 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Specialty Metals Plant has more employees than the Zirconium and zirconium alloy bar, rod, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 2.8 1.1 8 0 0
2018 4.9 0.7 8 7 0
2017 1.8 0.6 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331491 · PA · Blairsville

113 Zirconium and zirconium alloy bar, rod, billet, sheet, strip, and tubing made from purchased metals or scrap employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 35 employers in Blairsville, 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 Goldman Titanium, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jamestown North America 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR USMe 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR VDM Metals USA, LLC 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE HB McClure 304 FTE
STATE-SIZE McLanahan Corporation 304 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leonardo DRS - Johnstown Facility 304 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2663 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westinghouse Electric Company - Specialty Metals Plant 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5356 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5356 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR School Bus Drivers, Inc. 214 FTE
NAT-TCR 0000000123 Quick Chek Food Stores 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR RagingWire TX 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 705 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 225 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Swg North Ops Office 0021-Fac48 304 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scio Township Meijer 173 304 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel 304 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cook County Juvenile Probation - Chicago 304 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: 2020, 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.