Newspaper branch offices · Pennsylvania

Valley News Dispatch

Tarentum, PA · ~127 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley News Dispatch runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Newspaper branch offices workplace, earning a grade C.

Valley News Dispatch: 0.8 TCR = 119% of Newspaper branch offices BLS 0.7 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley News Dispatch safety composite

Valley News Dispatch scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−1.7

2018→2020

Valley News Dispatch injury rate improved

Valley News Dispatch's TCR fell 1.7 from 1.7 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.7 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 511110 · Tarentum, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 0.8 · 119% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO White Wolf Web
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: White Wolf Web (0.1 TCR gap)

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Valley News Dispatch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley News Dispatch averages 0.8 TCR (119% of the Newspaper branch offices BLS benchmark).

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

Valley News Dispatch TCR series: 2018=1.7 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0 · BLS 0.7

Where Valley News Dispatch falls in its industry

61 Newspaper branch offices establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

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 9 Newspaper branch offices employers in Pennsylvania.

Valley News Dispatch (127 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 Valley News Dispatch
Valley News Dispatch (127 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Valley News Dispatch has more employees than the Newspaper branch offices median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

511110 · PA · Tarentum

61 Newspaper branch offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 21 employers in Tarentum, 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 White Wolf Web 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckley Newspapers Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LNP Media Group, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE C.P. Yeatman & Sons, Inc. 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stevens Engineers & Constructors-Pittsburgh 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bronder Technical Services 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Region 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Joseph B. Fay Co. 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3838 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3838 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2219 LOWE S OF N.E. PITTSBURGH PA 180 FTE
NAT-TCR FJ Remey Co., Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington Elementary 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ridgeview Plant 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Falk PLI 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Distribution - Mt. Crawford VA 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE AGT-CO 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dennis Raedeke Inc 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE All-Star-Waterbury 127 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.