Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants · Pennsylvania

Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury

Sunbury, PA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury: 5.1 TCR = 154% of Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury safety composite

Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.73 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

−0.7

2017→2019

Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury injury rate improved

Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury's TCR fell 0.7 from 5.4 in 2017 to 4.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.4 · 2019=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Sunbury, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 154% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #7/19
  • PHOTO Taubensee Steel & Wi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Taubensee Steel & Wire Henderson Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury averages 5.1 TCR (154% of the Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury TCR series: 2017=5.4 · 2019=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury falls in its industry

163 Wire products, iron or steel, establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 19 Wire products, iron or steel, employers in Pennsylvania.

Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury (20 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury
Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury (20 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Wirerope Works Inc Sunbury has fewer employees than the Wire products, iron or steel, made in wi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2019 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2017 5.4 5.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · PA · Sunbury

163 Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 35 employers in Sunbury, 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 Taubensee Steel & Wire Henderson Plant 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wire Mesh Sales 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Wire Products 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TI Wire 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE VanBlarcom 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matterns Hatchery 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookfield Renewable - Holtwood 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springdale 3,4,5 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR 251 507 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunbury Textile Mills, Inc. 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR 36 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Susquehanna Sunbury 123 FTE
NAT-TCR 6795-16714B01TA 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Midsouth Steel, LLC 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR G & A MaxYield 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Springhill Suites Salt Lake City 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walpole 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whip's Carpentry US LLC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 134 Medford Block 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin SDO 20 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: 2019, 2017. 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.