Home centers, building materials · Pennsylvania

Valu Home Center #45

Erie, PA · ~22 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valu Home Center #45 runs at 402% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home centers, building materials workplace, earning a grade F.

Valu Home Center #45: 13.7 TCR = 402% of Home centers, building materials BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valu Home Center #45 safety composite

Valu Home Center #45 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Valu Home Center #45: 0.0 → 16.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 40.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2023

Valu Home Center #45's TCR rose 16.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 16.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 40.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Erie, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.7 · 402% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #274/276
  • PHOTO Valley Lumber & Supply
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valley Lumber & Supply (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valu Home Center #45 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valu Home Center #45 averages 13.7 TCR (402% of the Home centers, building materials BLS benchmark).

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

Valu Home Center #45 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=29.6 · 2018=9.9 · 2019=40.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=16 · BLS 3.4

Where Valu Home Center #45 falls in its industry

6,309 Home centers, building materia establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #274 safest of 276 Home centers, building materia employers in Pennsylvania.

Valu Home Center #45 (22 employees, TCR 13.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Valu Home Center #45
Valu Home Center #45 (22 employees, TCR 13.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Valu Home Center #45 has fewer employees than the Home centers, building materials median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2023 16.0 8.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 40.1 10.0 4 0 0
2018 9.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 29.6 19.8 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · PA · Erie

6,309 Home centers, building materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 473 employers in Erie, 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 Valley Lumber & Supply 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grafton 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WALKER 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller's Truss Plant La Grande 13.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dawson's Orchards 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kuhn Orchards, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giorgi Mushroom Farm 3 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Hope 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Erie, PA 5,403 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hamot 2,675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabtec-Erie 2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL 2,135 FTE
NAT-TCR Corrosion Resistant Reinforcing 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmers' Electric 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Leawood State Line 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Njmoo - Moonachie 13.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Capital Steel Service, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inlet Energy- Anchorage Warehouse 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stone Tree Incorporated 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampden-Sydney AHQ 22 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, 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.