Natural Gas Distribution · Pennsylvania

UGI Utilities Reading

Reading, PA · ~268 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UGI Utilities Reading runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Natural Gas Distribution workplace, earning a grade D.

UGI Utilities Reading: 1.7 TCR = 144% of Natural Gas Distribution BLS 1.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UGI Utilities Reading safety composite

UGI Utilities Reading scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Rising injury rate

UGI Utilities Reading: 0.7 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.63× in 2022

UGI Utilities Reading's TCR rose 3.8 from 0.7 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221210 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.7 · 144% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #20/59
  • PHOTO CenterPoint Energy -…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~268 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CenterPoint Energy - Noblesville (0.0 TCR gap)

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UGI Utilities Reading in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UGI Utilities Reading averages 1.7 TCR (144% of the Natural Gas Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

UGI Utilities Reading TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=4.5 · BLS 1.2

Where UGI Utilities Reading falls in its industry

1,153 Natural Gas Distribution establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 59 Natural Gas Distribution employers in Pennsylvania.

UGI Utilities Reading (268 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate UGI Utilities Reading
UGI Utilities Reading (268 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6

UGI Utilities Reading has more employees than the Natural Gas Distribution median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2022 4.5 4.5 6 0 0
2021 0.8 0.8 2 0 0
2020 0.8 0.8 2 0 0
2019 2.6 1.5 7 0 0
2018 0.9 0.6 3 0 0
2016 0.7 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221210 · PA · Reading

1,153 Natural Gas Distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, 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 CenterPoint Energy - Noblesville 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AIKEN GAS OPERATIONS 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 530-NiSource-Goshen IN-Operating HQ 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTH RALEIGH OPERATIONS 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Range Resources - Appalachia, LLC 268 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hempt Bros., Inc 268 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp. 268 FTE
STATE-SIZE USSC Acquisition Corp 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR Industrial Tool, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR AccuRounds 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1507 - Old Saybrook 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR WPN-Well 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Geary Pacific Corporation - Company Consolidated Report 268 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ontario Healthcare Center 268 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skier's Choice Inc. 268 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encircle Health 268 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.