Metal powder and flake made from purchased aluminum · Pennsylvania

Tidewood

Tamaqua Pa, PA · ~45 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tidewood runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Metal powder and flake made from purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade D.

Tidewood: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Metal powder and flake made from purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tidewood safety composite

Tidewood scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Tidewood: 0.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

Tidewood's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331314 · Tamaqua Pa, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Pennex Aluminum Comp…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pennex Aluminum Company - Greenville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tidewood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tidewood averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Metal powder and flake made from purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Tidewood TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=10 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=3 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Tidewood falls in its industry

103 Metal powder and flake made fr establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Metal powder and flake made fr employers in Pennsylvania.

Tidewood (45 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Tidewood
Tidewood (45 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Tidewood has fewer employees than the Metal powder and flake made from purchas median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 0 1 0
2022 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2021 9.1 6.8 3 1 0
2020 4.3 4.3 2 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2017 10.0 10.0 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331314 · PA · Tamaqua Pa

103 Metal powder and flake made from purchased aluminum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 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 Pennex Aluminum Company - Greenville 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Matalco Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydro Monett 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ECKART America - Louisville 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE DocHouse 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Florin Farms Hatchery, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Risser's Poultry, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley 45 FTE
NAT-TCR New England Lead Burning Company, Inc. (C&S and Corp.) 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR OHSU Main Campus 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FM3009 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunrise Cooperative - Starbuck Rd 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 020128 - Midwest Aviation 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Muthig Industries LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iberia plant 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 45 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.