Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Swindell Dressler

Coraopolis, PA · ~48 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swindell Dressler runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Swindell Dressler: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swindell Dressler safety composite

Swindell Dressler scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Swindell Dressler: 1.8 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Swindell Dressler's TCR rose 2.5 from 1.8 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333994 · Coraopolis, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/14
  • PHOTO Denton Vacuum, LLC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denton Vacuum, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swindell Dressler in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swindell Dressler averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Swindell Dressler TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Swindell Dressler falls in its industry

103 Ceramic kilns and furnaces man establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 14 Ceramic kilns and furnaces man employers in Pennsylvania.

Swindell Dressler (48 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Swindell Dressler
Swindell Dressler (48 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Swindell Dressler has fewer employees than the Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 4.2 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.7 0.0 2 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333994 · PA · Coraopolis

103 Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 68 employers in Coraopolis, 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 Denton Vacuum, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DS Fibertech Corporation 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR INA-Liverpool 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SierraThermal, Inc. 1.5 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 Customer Support Center 2,571 FTE
CITY-NEAR 090 PGH 1,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR 90 1,168 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48037 1,072 FTE
NAT-TCR Pritchard Industries, LLC. - NY 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith & Richardson 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Silgan Containers Ft Dodge 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas - BMD 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE M Health Clinics and Surgery Center 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vistar Minnesota - 1075 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kitchen & Bath Center 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albert City 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.