Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants · Pennsylvania

Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT

Sunbury, PA · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT: 5.5 TCR = 166% of Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT safety composite

Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT held a steady TCR band

Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT's TCR held near 0.2 from 5.6 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.6 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.6 · 2017=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #8/19
  • PHOTO Mar-Mac Industries, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mar-Mac Industries, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT averages 5.5 TCR (166% of the Barbed and twisted wire 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 PLANT TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2017=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT falls in its industry

163 Barbed and twisted wire made i establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #8 safest of 19 Barbed and twisted wire made i employers in Pennsylvania.

Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT (21 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 PLANT
Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT (21 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT has fewer employees than the Barbed and twisted wire made in wire dra 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
2017 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2016 5.6 5.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · PA · Sunbury

163 Barbed and twisted wire 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 Mar-Mac Industries, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carthage Wire Mill 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau- Beaumont Wire 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Wire : Niles 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smiling Porker 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE STgenetics-PA Dairy 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE LUMA, Carolina Hangar 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Frackville 21 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 Main Office 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Longview (Txlon) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Carnesville (Gacar) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR UG2 - 218 - Destiny USA 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0774 - Albuquerque-Central, Nm 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0744 - Jasper, Al 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0681 - Bakersfield South, Ca 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0663 - Surprise, Az 21 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.