Machine shops · Pennsylvania

Star Iron Works, Inc

Punxsutawney, PA · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Star Iron Works, Inc runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Star Iron Works, Inc: 5.3 TCR = 159% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Star Iron Works, Inc safety composite

Star Iron Works, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Star Iron Works, Inc: 4.1 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2021

Star Iron Works, Inc's TCR rose 2.3 from 4.1 in 2020 to 6.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Punxsutawney, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #106/177
  • PHOTO Square Deal Machinin…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Square Deal Machining Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Star Iron Works, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Star Iron Works, Inc averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Star Iron Works, Inc TCR series: 2020=4.1 · 2021=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Star Iron Works, Inc falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #106 safest of 177 Machine shops employers in Pennsylvania.

Star Iron Works, Inc (58 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Star Iron Works, Inc
Star Iron Works, Inc (58 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Star Iron Works, Inc has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 6.4 4.8 3 1 0
2020 4.1 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · PA · Punxsutawney

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 24 employers in Punxsutawney, 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 Square Deal Machining Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renco Machine Company, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR M & W Manufacturing Co 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Menu Mate Mushroom Farm 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE CannTech 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE PA Location 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moyer's Hatchery 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Punxsutawney Area Hospital 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2664 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2664 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Proform Powdered Metals 164 FTE
NAT-TCR Smithfield Direct- Little Rock 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Solstice Senior Living at Fairport 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Window Systems 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Seele, inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boaty's Transport Inc 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warrenton NJ TE LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic Services - Cahokia Hauling 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Still 58 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.