TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.5 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Pennsylvania workplace safety
How 22,692 OSHA-reporting employers across Pennsylvania compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 20,358 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 22,692
- Employers
- 5.5
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 483,737
- Injuries (all)
- 268
- Fatalities (all)
Pennsylvania vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
22,692 5th of 54 higher than 49 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Pennsylvania's 20,358 rated reporting employers average 5.5 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.0 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.5
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 20,358
- rated employers
- 22,692
- all reporting employers
- 483,737
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 22,692 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 14% B · 13% C · 26% D · 23% F · 25%
25% of Pennsylvania's reporting establishments earn an F and 14% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Pennsylvania ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRPennsylvania's average TCR of 5.5 is lower than 32% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Pennsylvania is #37 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 20,358-employer subset), it's #19 of 54, a 18-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Pennsylvania Workplaces Compare
Pennsylvania hosts 22,692 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Pennsylvania cohort, workers have logged 483,737 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 20,358 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 268 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Pennsylvania, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Pennsylvania, by injury rate
Page 17 of 453| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shop | Pleasantville | Fabricated pipe and pipe fit | F | 15.4 |
| 4535-1058 | Pittsburgh | Retail/Home Furnishings | F | 15.4 |
| CARBONDALE_1356989 | Carbondale | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.4 |
| 6458-LEHI | Northampton | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 15.4 |
| The Gardens of Green Ridge ALF | Scranton | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 15.4 |
| Interstate Window and Door | Pittston | Windows, metal, manufacturin | F | 15.4 |
| 416625-Pit-Cedarhurst Br | Pittsburgh | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.4 |
| The Gardens for Memory Care at Easton | Easton | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 15.4 |
| Reilly Plating Co. | Nanticoke | Anodizing metals and metal p | F | 15.4 |
| IronTiger - Macungie | Macungie | Automobile carrier trucking, | F | 15.4 |
| Philosophe LLC | Bensalem | Delivery service (except as | F | 15.3 |
| Whse Bsg 3006791 Pottsville Pa | Pottsville | General Warehousing and Stor | F | 15.3 |
| Boricua Delivery LLC | Aston | Delivery service (except as | F | 15.3 |
| Salisbury Township | Allentown | Food service contractors | F | 15.3 |
| Green Valley Skilled Nursing and Rehab | Pottsville | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 15.3 |
| 0720 - Quakertown, Pa | Quakertown | Retail Stores | F | 15.3 |
| Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Altoona | Altoona | Rehabilitation hospitals (ex | F | 15.3 |
| Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Company, Inc. - Storage | Lancaster | Tobacco products (e.g., chew | F | 15.3 |
| 500584800 Lock Haven University | Lock Haven | Food Services | F | 15.3 |
| Meenan PA - Tullytown | Tullytown | Heating oil dealers, direct | F | 15.3 |
| Bakersville ICF | Somerset | Homes with or without health | F | 15.3 |
| Robinson Store | Robinson | Clothing stores, family | F | 15.2 |
| Spring Garden_1382528 | Philadelphia | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.2 |
| 191460001 | Philadelphia | Transportation Air Cargo | F | 15.2 |
| Central Transport - 150 | Gibsonia | - | F | 15.2 |
| Bedford Area Ambulance | Bedford | Rescue services, medical | F | 15.2 |
| Advanced Disposal - Shippensburg | Shippensburg | - | F | 15.2 |
| 1 | Allentown | Masonry contractors | F | 15.2 |
| 410612-Berwick Po | Berwick | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.2 |
| Nickett Landscaping Inc | Doylestown | Landscaping services (except | F | 15.2 |
| Asbury Chandler Estate | Pen Argyl | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 15.2 |
| 411612-Connellsville Po | Connellsville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.2 |
| 2576-93060000-9306 | Doylestown | Psychiatric and Substance Ab | F | 15.2 |
| 6101 | King of Prussia | Drywall board merchant whole | F | 15.2 |
| WAYNECO | York | Kitchen cabinets (except fre | F | 15.2 |
| Danville Ambulance Service | Danville | Ambulance services, air or g | F | 15.1 |
| Associated Truck Parts | Gilbertsville | Auto body shop supplies, mer | F | 15.1 |
| Peapod Coopersburg, Pa | Coopersburg | Grocery Delivery Service | F | 15.1 |
| Valley Ambulance Authority | Moon Twp | Ambulance services, air or g | F | 15.1 |
| Laurelbrooke Landing | Brookville | Continuing care retirement c | F | 15.1 |
| 610869700 Acrisure Stadium Club Level | Pittsburgh | Food Services | F | 15.1 |
| Sutphen East Corp | Lake Ariel | Service machinery and equipm | F | 15.1 |
| Montgomery SNF Operator, LLC | Plymouth Meeting | Nursing homes | F | 15.1 |
| DuBois Village | Dubois | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 15.1 |
| Great Coasters International Inc. | Sunbury | Carnival and amusement park | F | 15.1 |
| 143 Lansdale | Line Lexington | Freight Trucking LTL | F | 15.1 |
| A254 - SVEMS & SVFA Headquarters (Life Lion) | Lancaster | Ambulance services, air or g | F | 15.1 |
| Kimberton Whole Foods Wyomissing | Wyomissing | Grocery stores | F | 15.1 |
| 4795-PD-ABE-ALLENTOWN-ABE-PDMT | Allentown | Scheduled Passenger Air Tran | F | 15.1 |
| 181 | Bethlehem | Couriers and express deliver | F | 15.1 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Pennsylvania: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.5 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (22,692 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.