Pocket knives manufacturing · Pennsylvania

W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company

Bradford, PA · ~245 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pocket knives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Pocket knives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company safety composite

W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company: 3.3 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2023

W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company's TCR rose 0.4 from 3.3 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332215 · Bradford, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK P75
  • PHOTO Microtech Knives 221…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~245 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Microtech Knives 221 Old Hendersonville Rd (0.1 TCR gap)

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W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Pocket knives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2018=3 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company falls in its industry

52 Pocket knives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company (245 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company
W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company (245 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.4

W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company has more employees than the Pocket knives manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 3.6 1.8 7 3 0
2022 3.8 1.9 5 5 0
2021 2.1 1.3 5 0 0
2020 2.5 1.5 5 0 0
2019 1.9 0.5 4 0 0
2018 3.0 0.5 4 2 0
2016 3.3 1.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332215 · PA · Bradford

52 Pocket knives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 40 employers in Bradford, 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 Microtech Knives 221 Old Hendersonville Rd 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Industries Corp. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klein Cutlery, LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benchmade Knife Company 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Pennsylvania - Birdsboro 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Envelope Corporation 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE FV-Oliver Healthcare Packaging 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE Building 4 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zippo Manufacturing Company 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bradford Regional Medical Center 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Refining Group- Bradford 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3514 293 FTE
NAT-TCR S09097 - Akron MRF 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR American Metals West Sacramento 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Linc 3716 (Smyrna LLC - F) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Midwest Medical Center 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ums Go (Corporate - M) 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE State of MN Guardian ad Litem Board 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Juan PR 245 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.