Chemical milling job shops · Pennsylvania

Tech Met, Inc.

Glassport, PA · ~35 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tech Met, Inc. runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chemical milling job shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Tech Met, Inc.: 6.6 TCR = 199% of Chemical milling job shops BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tech Met, Inc. safety composite

Tech Met, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−3.6

2016→2024

Tech Met, Inc. injury rate improved

Tech Met, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.6 from 6.3 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=10.2 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=6.0 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=15.7 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 199% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #122/177
  • PHOTO RAND MACHINE WORKS
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RAND MACHINE WORKS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tech Met, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tech Met, Inc. averages 6.6 TCR (199% of the Chemical milling job shops BLS benchmark).

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

Tech Met, Inc. TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=10.2 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=6 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=15.7 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Tech Met, Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Chemical milling job shops establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #122 safest of 177 Chemical milling job shops employers in Pennsylvania.

Tech Met, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 Tech Met, Inc.
Tech Met, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Tech Met, Inc. has fewer employees than the Chemical milling job 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 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 15.7 3.1 5 0 0
2022 6.9 6.9 2 0 0
2021 8.6 8.6 3 0 0
2020 6.0 3.0 1 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2017 10.2 4.1 5 0 0
2016 6.3 3.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · PA · Glassport

1,821 Chemical milling job shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 5 employers in Glassport, 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 RAND MACHINE WORKS 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEIGHTEN AMERICA, INC. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sulzer Machine 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terog Manufacturing 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE W.A.C. Mushrooms Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highland Oysters 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Spawning, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE PANTHER CREEK POWER OPERATING 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kurt J Lesker 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR KJLC Building #3 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Royal Oak Recycling Glassport PA 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glassport Terminal 14 FTE
NAT-TCR Central States Marketing and Manufacturing, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vander Haag's Inc. - Sioux Falls 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 037-COL 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Patriot Towers, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CFE Hartley 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brady Plumbing Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE At Home Stores #87 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE At Home Stores #93 35 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.