Adobe bricks manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Universal Refractories, Inc

Wampum, PA · ~107 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Universal Refractories, Inc runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Adobe bricks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Universal Refractories, Inc: 4.6 TCR = 138% of Adobe bricks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Universal Refractories, Inc safety composite

Universal Refractories, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Universal Refractories, Inc: 5.2 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2021

Universal Refractories, Inc's TCR rose 0.7 from 5.2 in 2017 to 6.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Wampum, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 138% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #16/36
  • PHOTO Mohawk Industries :D…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mohawk Industries :DTL-MFG- USA Dickson TN Quartz (0.0 TCR gap)

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Universal Refractories, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Universal Refractories, Inc averages 4.6 TCR (138% of the Adobe bricks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Universal Refractories, Inc TCR series: 2017=5.2 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Universal Refractories, Inc falls in its industry

307 Adobe bricks manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #16 safest of 36 Adobe bricks manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Universal Refractories, Inc (107 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Universal Refractories, Inc
Universal Refractories, Inc (107 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Universal Refractories, Inc has more employees than the Adobe bricks manufacturing 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
2021 6.0 3.4 5 2 0
2020 2.5 2.5 3 0 0
2017 5.2 3.7 4 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · PA · Wampum

307 Adobe bricks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 6 employers in Wampum, 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 Mohawk Industries :DTL-MFG- USA Dickson TN Quartz 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shoemakersville plant 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caledonia plant 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magnesita Refractories 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CP Rankin, Inc. 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE LSC Lutron Services Co., Inc. - Field Service 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westmoreland Electric Services, LLC 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burns Mechanical 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Youngblood Paving Inc 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Universal Refractories, Inc Wampum Campus 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vesuvius Penn Wampum 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Doren Inc 64 FTE
NAT-TCR Majestic Drive 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AVK Industrial Products 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeast Highway Guardrail & Attenuators, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Chili, WI 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Custom Coolers, Inc. CA 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE The J.M. Smucker Company 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Capitol Nursing and Rehabilitation 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warehouse 01 Pet Food Experts 107 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: 2021, 2020, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.