Water softening compounds merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

The Cope Company Salt

Lancaster, PA · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Cope Company Salt runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water softening compounds merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

The Cope Company Salt: 2.7 TCR = 122% of Water softening compounds merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Cope Company Salt safety composite

The Cope Company Salt scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−5.4

2016→2024

The Cope Company Salt injury rate improved

The Cope Company Salt's TCR fell 5.4 from 5.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Lancaster, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.7 · 122% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #33/43
  • PHOTO Jacksonville JV 0975
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jacksonville JV 0975 (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Cope Company Salt in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Cope Company Salt averages 2.7 TCR (122% of the Water softening compounds merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

The Cope Company Salt TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where The Cope Company Salt falls in its industry

766 Water softening compounds merc establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 43 Water softening compounds merc employers in Pennsylvania.

The Cope Company Salt (21 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate The Cope Company Salt
The Cope Company Salt (21 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

The Cope Company Salt has fewer employees than the Water softening compounds merchant whole median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.4 5.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · PA · Lancaster

766 Water softening compounds merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 450 employers in Lancaster, 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 Jacksonville JV 0975 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orica USA 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Chemical Corp 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Council Bluffs Branch 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smiling Porker 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE STgenetics-PA Dairy 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE LUMA, Carolina Hangar 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Frackville 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Health, LGH Hospital 7,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR LGHealth 7,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Hospital 6,528 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Medical Group 1,436 FTE
NAT-TCR Fusion Optix 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR REW Landscape Corp 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayday Manufacturing Co. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 04-Louisville 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hyatt Place Louisville East 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polo Park Estates 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lindsay 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berger Transfer & Storage, Inc- Houston 21 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, 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.