Machine shops · Pennsylvania

Tooling Specialists Inc

Latrobe, PA · ~50 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tooling Specialists Inc runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Tooling Specialists Inc: 4.8 TCR = 146% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tooling Specialists Inc safety composite

Tooling Specialists Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−6.5

2019→2023

Tooling Specialists Inc injury rate improved

Tooling Specialists Inc's TCR fell 6.5 from 9.6 in 2019 to 3.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.6 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #98/177
  • PHOTO Granger Machine, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Granger Machine, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tooling Specialists Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tooling Specialists Inc averages 4.8 TCR (146% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Tooling Specialists Inc TCR series: 2019=9.6 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Tooling Specialists Inc falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #98 safest of 177 Machine shops employers in Pennsylvania.

Tooling Specialists Inc (50 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Tooling Specialists Inc
Tooling Specialists Inc (50 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Tooling Specialists Inc has more employees than the Machine 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
2023 3.1 3.1 2 0 0
2022 5.9 0.0 3 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2019 9.6 3.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · PA · Latrobe

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 66 employers in Latrobe, 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 Granger Machine, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allstate Tool & Die, Inc. d/b/a ATD Precision 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corrugated Gear and Services, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alexandria Extrusion South 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE To-Jo Food Products Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kulp Family Dairy LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maronda Homes Inc of Pennsylvania 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Home Remodeling Pros of Central PA 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Latrobe Hospital 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : LSM - Latrobe 654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adelphoi Village, Inc. 537 FTE
CITY-NEAR Latrobe Tech Center 534 FTE
NAT-TCR Alter Metal Recycling - Peoria Behr - Clarke St 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Marlborough 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100089 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-055-Plano ( RK-055 ) 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brenneman Pork, LLLP 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forest Packaging Corp. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brehmer Mfg. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edina Service Center-UB 50 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.