Machine shops · Pennsylvania

Swartfager Welding Inc

Knox, PA · ~129 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swartfager Welding Inc runs at 291% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Swartfager Welding Inc: 9.6 TCR = 291% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swartfager Welding Inc safety composite

Swartfager Welding Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.6

2017→2024

Swartfager Welding Inc injury rate improved

Swartfager Welding Inc's TCR fell 4.6 from 12.6 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.6 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=15.7 · 2023=10.0 · 2024=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Knox, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 291% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #157/177
  • PHOTO Magnum Steel Works, …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 108 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Magnum Steel Works, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swartfager Welding Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swartfager Welding Inc averages 9.6 TCR (291% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Swartfager Welding Inc TCR series: 2017=12.6 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=15.7 · 2023=10 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Swartfager Welding Inc falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #157 safest of 177 Machine shops employers in Pennsylvania.

Swartfager Welding Inc (129 employees, TCR 9.6) 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 Swartfager Welding Inc
Swartfager Welding Inc (129 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Swartfager Welding 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
2024 8.0 2.2 11 0 0
2023 10.0 1.3 15 0 0
2022 15.7 3.7 21 0 0
2021 6.8 0.8 8 0 0
2020 8.7 0.7 13 0 0
2019 6.4 0.0 10 0 0
2018 8.6 1.3 12 1 0
2017 12.6 0.0 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · PA · Knox

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 5 employers in Knox, 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 Magnum Steel Works, Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Excel Manufacturing Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walerko Tool & Eng Corporation 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Feedscrews 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pennsy Transportation 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robert Ganter Contractors Inc 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lugaila Mechanical Inc. 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frey Lutz LLC 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tom's Riverside #775 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sharp Shopper Inc. - Knox Store 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR eden knox 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knox 5 10 FTE
NAT-TCR Manfredi Cold Storage of Pedricktown 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanover Park WRP 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CEDI Atlanta 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Loudoun Medical Center 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Cassel Retirement Center 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arcadia Chair Company - F5 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centrus Energy ACO-OR 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barkman Honey 129 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.