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
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
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 212 of 453| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2219 Lowe S of N.E. Pittsburgh Pa | Tarentum | Homecenter | D | 4.3 |
| ROYERSFORD_1380041 | Royersford | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 4.3 |
| Wm 2049 | Altoona | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.3 |
| New Standard Corporation Emigsville | Emigsville | Metal stampings (except auto | D | 4.3 |
| PA-MONRO01 | Monroeville | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.3 |
| Crh Harrisburg | Harrisburg | Vending machine merchandiser | D | 4.3 |
| Dewart PA | Dewart | Service | D | 4.3 |
| Bickels Snack Foods | York | Corn chips and related corn | C | 4.3 |
| 7th Ward Civic Association | Johnstown | Emergency medical transporta | C | 4.3 |
| 2909 | Corry | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.3 |
| Everson Tesla Inc | Nazaeth | Coils for motors and generat | D | 4.3 |
| Sun Motor Cars BMW | Mechanicsburg | Automobile dealers, new only | D | 4.3 |
| Boyer's Food Markets -Fleetwood | Fleetwood | Grocery stores | D | 4.3 |
| Pikes Creek Site Contractors | Hazleton | Construction management, hig | D | 4.3 |
| Pssi / Fresh Express Inc. - Harrisburg | Harrisburg | Building Maintenance Service | C | 4.3 |
| CN - Drexel Hill | Drexel Hill | - | C | 4.3 |
| Harrisburg, PA - Sycamore Street Maintenance Shop | Harrisburg | - | C | 4.3 |
| Chelsea Team Players | Jenkintown | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 4.3 |
| Knitney Lines Inc dba KLI | Scranton | General Freight Trucking | C | 4.3 |
| Atlantic Equipment Specialists Inc | Danville | Cafeteria furniture manufact | D | 4.3 |
| 5472-000007725 | Philadelphia | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.3 |
| Ardagh Glass Inc Port Allegany | Port Allegany | Glass packaging containers m | D | 4.3 |
| Hanlon Electric Company | Monroeville | Electrical, electrical wirin | D | 4.3 |
| Ruthrauff Service | Carnegie | Mechanical contractors | D | 4.3 |
| Harrisburg PA FXFE-HSG | Middletown | Less Than Truckload General | C | 4.3 |
| Ingredients - Drying - Middlebury Center PA | Middlebury Center | Dry Condensed Evaporated Dai | D | 4.3 |
| 4171 Bloomsburg | Bloomsburg | Home Centers | D | 4.3 |
| Military & Commercial Fasteners | York | Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts | D | 4.3 |
| Forum Lighting | Pittsburgh | Commercial lighting fixtures | D | 4.3 |
| McKee Management Associates, Inc. | Springfield | Construction management, sin | C | 4.3 |
| Pipeline Video Inspection, LLC dba AIMS Companies (W. PA) | Mcmurray | Sewer cleanout services | D | 4.3 |
| Bestway of Pennsylvania, Inc | Cresco | Pressure treated lumber made | D | 4.3 |
| *Einstein Center One | Philadelphia | - | C | 4.3 |
| Houston Starr Company | Pittsburgh | Home centers, building mater | D | 4.3 |
| Bergey's Lincoln | Lansdale | Automobile dealers, new only | D | 4.3 |
| FreeBird | Fredericksburg | Poultry slaughtering, dressi | D | 4.3 |
| 4039-03301000-00W007 | Erie | Motors & generators | D | 4.3 |
| RUTHERFORD | Harrisburg | Loading and unloading servic | C | 4.3 |
| Redner's Warehouse Market Hamburg | Hamburg | Grocery stores | D | 4.3 |
| Hoke Mills Inc | Abbottstown | Animal feed mills, dog and c | C | 4.3 |
| Ryder System Inc. | Alburtis | Bonded warehousing, general | B | 4.3 |
| EXPA Associates LLC DBA Hilton Garden Inn_Exton | Exton | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 4.3 |
| 645 Liberty Mountain | Fairfield | Alpine skiing facilities wit | D | 4.3 |
| Pulaski | Pulaski | Pipe fabricating (i.e., bend | D | 4.3 |
| 189 | Wyomissing | Supermarket, Retail | D | 4.3 |
| ShopRite of Roosevelt Blvd | Philadelphia | Supermarkets | D | 4.3 |
| GMC Farm 1 | Blandon | Mushroom farming | C | 4.3 |
| Alfa Laval Inc. Warminster (loc code: PAWARM) | Warminster | Industrial Machinery and Equ | F | 4.3 |
| Sodexo at Manorcare Dallastown | Dallastown | Food Service Contractors | D | 4.3 |
| Bush Industries, Inc. | Erie | General warehousing and stor | B | 4.3 |
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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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.