Academies, college or university · Pennsylvania

Swarthmore College

Swarthmore, PA · ~13 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swarthmore College runs at 9% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade A.

Swarthmore College: 0.1 TCR = 9% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swarthmore College safety composite

Swarthmore College scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Swarthmore College: 0.0 → 0.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 0.5 TCR · DART/TCR 4× in 2021

Swarthmore College's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Swarthmore, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 9% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #1/12
  • PHOTO B4 South Bend - Sout…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swarthmore College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swarthmore College averages 0.1 TCR (9% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

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

Swarthmore College TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0.5 · BLS 1.4

Where Swarthmore College falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 12 Academies, college or universi employers in Pennsylvania.

Swarthmore College (13 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College (13 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Swarthmore College has fewer employees than the Academies, college or university median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.5 0.5 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · PA · Swarthmore

347 Academies, college or university employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 8 employers in Swarthmore, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Central College - Faribault Campus 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana - Systems Office 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR National University 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ludwig Drilling, LLC 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE XPER Coatings Division 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weir, Burgettstown 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastikos Medical LLC. 13 FTE
CITY-NEAR PA00000032 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - SWARTHM 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children and Adult disability and Educational Services 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children & Adult Disability & Educational Services 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delaware County Programs 156 FTE
NAT-TCR A292 Construction 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora Flight Sciences Massachusett 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6354-NY64 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR St-Louis (PC) 0.1 TCR

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, 2019, 2018. 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.