Insulating batts, fills, or blankets made from purchased paper · Pennsylvania

Wilkes-Barre

Laflin, PA · ~68 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wilkes-Barre runs at 249% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Insulating batts, fills, or blankets made from purchased paper workplace, earning a grade F.

Wilkes-Barre: 8.2 TCR = 249% of Insulating batts, fills, or blankets made from purchased paper BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wilkes-Barre safety composite

Wilkes-Barre scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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 8.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−9.1

2016→2023

Wilkes-Barre injury rate improved

Wilkes-Barre's TCR fell 9.1 from 14.3 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.3 · 2017=13.1 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=4.9 · 2021=8.1 · 2023=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322299 · Laflin, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 249% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #19/20
  • PHOTO The Tranzonic Compan…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Tranzonic Companies (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wilkes-Barre in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wilkes-Barre averages 8.2 TCR (249% of the Insulating batts, fills, or blankets made from purchased paper BLS benchmark).

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

Wilkes-Barre TCR series: 2016=14.3 · 2017=13.1 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=4.9 · 2021=8.1 · 2023=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Wilkes-Barre falls in its industry

236 Insulating batts, fills, or bl establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 20 Insulating batts, fills, or bl employers in Pennsylvania.

Wilkes-Barre (68 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wilkes-Barre
Wilkes-Barre (68 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Wilkes-Barre has more employees than the Insulating batts, fills, or blankets mad median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2023 5.2 3.5 3 0 0
2021 8.1 4.9 4 1 0
2019 4.9 0.0 3 0 0
2018 3.7 3.7 3 0 0
2017 13.1 3.6 11 0 0
2016 14.3 8.3 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322299 · PA · Laflin

236 Insulating batts, fills, or blankets made from purchased paper 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 The Tranzonic Companies 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NCC Northlake 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gusmer Enterprises, Inc. - Hickory, NC 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pellet America Corporation Appleton 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Regester Mushrooms inc 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monterey Mushroom Inc 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Pride Hatchery 68 FTE
NAT-TCR Iloha - O'Hare 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fraticelli Oil 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Honolulu Volkswagen 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR EHDE - EHI Denver 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE DL Lennon, Inc. 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin Labs, TX Biomat 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE County Market #507 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2 - Lvs 68 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, 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.