Alloying purchased copper metals · Pennsylvania

The Federal Metal Co. PA

Columbia, PA · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Federal Metal Co. PA runs at 386% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Alloying purchased copper metals workplace, earning a grade F.

The Federal Metal Co. PA: 12.8 TCR = 386% of Alloying purchased copper metals BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Federal Metal Co. PA safety composite

The Federal Metal Co. PA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.3

2023→2024

The Federal Metal Co. PA injury rate improved

The Federal Metal Co. PA's TCR fell 7.3 from 16.4 in 2023 to 9.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=16.4 · 2024=9.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · Columbia, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 386% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #22/22
  • PHOTO Vulkor
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vulkor (0.3 TCR gap)

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The Federal Metal Co. PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Federal Metal Co. PA averages 12.8 TCR (386% of the Alloying purchased copper metals BLS benchmark).

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

The Federal Metal Co. PA TCR series: 2023=16.4 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.3

Where The Federal Metal Co. PA falls in its industry

198 Alloying purchased copper meta establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 22 Alloying purchased copper meta employers in Pennsylvania.

The Federal Metal Co. PA (25 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Federal Metal Co. PA
The Federal Metal Co. PA (25 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

The Federal Metal Co. PA has fewer employees than the Alloying purchased copper metals median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 9.1 9.1 1 0 0
2023 16.4 10.1 9 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · PA · Columbia

198 Alloying purchased copper metals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 28 employers in Columbia, 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 Vulkor 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essex Furukawa Metals Processing Center 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMC MetalsAmerica, LLC 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Alloys 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer New Holland NHL1 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunterstown Power Generation 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Producer 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warren Electric Cooperative, Inc. 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anvil International, Columbia Plant 539 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASC Engineered Solutions - (FKA Anvil Int.), Columbia Plant 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Anne's Retirement Community 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR 106566 127 FTE
NAT-TCR Lake Forest Place LLC 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Los Angeles Ca - 324 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Harbor at Douglasville 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR deLacey Family Education Center 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baker Sanitary Service, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nature Soy Holdings - Boulder 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spring WTG 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Fayetteville 25 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. 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.