Iron foundries · Pennsylvania

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville

Tioga, PA · ~225 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville runs at 413% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Iron foundries workplace, earning a grade F.

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville: 13.6 TCR = 413% of Iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville safety composite

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville: 10.5 → 22.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 22.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2020

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville's TCR rose 12.1 from 10.5 in 2016 to 22.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Tioga, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.6 · 413% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #15/24
  • PHOTO Dock Foundry LLC dba…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 116 inj
  • SIZE ~225 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dock Foundry LLC dba Three Rivers Gray Iron (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville averages 13.6 TCR (413% of the Iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville TCR series: 2016=10.5 · 2017=10.8 · 2018=13.2 · 2019=11 · 2020=22.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville falls in its industry

272 Iron foundries establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 24 Iron foundries employers in Pennsylvania.

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville (225 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville
Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville (225 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville has more employees than the Iron foundries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 22.6 9.2 11 11 0
2019 11.0 6.4 25 4 0
2018 13.2 7.1 30 7 0
2017 10.8 7.0 22 9 0
2016 10.5 7.7 28 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · PA · Tioga

272 Iron foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 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 Dock Foundry LLC dba Three Rivers Gray Iron 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR D&L Foundry Inc 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WHEMCO-Steel Castings Inc. (Midland Plant) 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele 13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE VHG 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joe Jurgielewicz & Son, Ltd 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aqua Services, Inc. - Bryn Mawr 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE JTM Foods LLC 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tyoga Container Company 114 FTE
NAT-TCR True Value Denver RDC 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar Ridge Center 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McKinley Center 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 007 South St Paul 13.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Givaudan Devon 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Santa Rosa - Recreation & Parks Department 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips Volcano-San Diego 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peak Behavioral Health / SBH - El Paso 225 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, 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.