Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished · Pennsylvania

Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle

New Castle, PA · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle: 7.8 TCR = 237% of Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle safety composite

Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle: 4.4 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2020

Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle's TCR rose 6.9 from 4.4 in 2019 to 11.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · New Castle, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 237% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #26/35
  • PHOTO Phoenix Forging Co.,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Phoenix Forging Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle averages 7.8 TCR (237% of the Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle TCR series: 2019=4.4 · 2020=11.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle falls in its industry

241 Steel forgings made from purch establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 35 Steel forgings made from purch employers in Pennsylvania.

Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle (48 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle
Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle (48 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle has fewer employees than the Steel forgings made from purchased steel median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 11.3 6.8 5 0 0
2019 4.4 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · PA · New Castle

241 Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 91 employers in New Castle, 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 Phoenix Forging Co., Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau Duluth Grinding Ball 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Dayton Forging & Heat Treating Company 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydrafab Northwest Inc 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sylvan America, Inc. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Esbenshade North 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rolling Rock Building Stone, Inc. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Stores Building 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Jameson 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR DON 805 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Castle 534 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2287 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Norwegian American Hospital Main 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Gilroy 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Paragon Ready Mix Inc 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heartland Ranch Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Augustana The Pines 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Jackson Grounds, SC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy at Georgetown 48 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.