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 47 of 453| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh | Leetsdale | Tires, new, motor vehicle, m | F | 10.6 |
| Shellys - Quakertown | Quakertown | Other Building Material Deal | F | 10.6 |
| Grocery Outlet Coatesville | Coatesville | Grocery stores | F | 10.6 |
| Wm 8160 | Temple | - | F | 10.6 |
| Stericycle - Morgantown,PA | Morgantown | Other Nonhazardous Waste Tre | F | 10.6 |
| Helpmates - Potter | Ridgway | Home health agencies | F | 10.6 |
| Meadow View Nursing Center | Berlin | Retirement homes with nursin | D | 10.6 |
| Sarah A Reed Children's Center | Erie | Boys' and girls' residential | F | 10.6 |
| Sodexo at Ch Hospital of Allentown, LLC | Allentown | Food Service Contractors | F | 10.6 |
| TDGIR - Girard, PA | Girard | Telecommunications | F | 10.6 |
| White Oak Mills | Elizabethtown | Animal feed mills (except do | F | 10.6 |
| Hunter Truck - Smithfield | Smithfield | Trucks, road, merchant whole | F | 10.6 |
| Main Office - 01 | Stoystown | Salvage Yard | F | 10.6 |
| 4535-1684 | Allentown | Retail/Home Furnishings | F | 10.6 |
| 5472-000003796 | Clifton Heights | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 10.6 |
| Hersheypark Camping Resort | Hummelstown | RV Recreational Vehicle Park | F | 10.6 |
| ITG Cigars | Mcadoo | Tobacco stemming and redryin | F | 10.5 |
| Curbs Plus, Inc. PA | Mount Union | Sheet metal work (except sta | F | 10.5 |
| reitnouer inc | Birdsboro | Semi-trailer manufacturing | F | 10.5 |
| 1875 - York West | York | Discount Department Stores | F | 10.5 |
| 1160 Pittsburgh | Neville Island | Freight Trucking LTL | F | 10.5 |
| Dillsburg, Elmcroft of | Dillsburg | - | F | 10.5 |
| Burger King 8603 | Erie | Eating Places (Fast Food) | F | 10.5 |
| Tractor Supply Company Store 2146 | Wysox | General Merchandise Stores | F | 10.5 |
| At Home Stores #170 | Monroeville | Homefurnishings stores | F | 10.5 |
| 1034 Southern York Co. School District | Glen Rock | Food Service Contractors | F | 10.5 |
| 160 Water Street, Reading, PA 19605 | Reading | Construction management, pow | F | 10.5 |
| 411068-Butler Po | Butler | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 10.5 |
| Pajoh - Johnstown | Johnstown | Couriers and Express Deliver | D | 10.5 |
| Community Blood Bank of Erie County | Erie | Blood banks | F | 10.5 |
| Poplar Run | Myerstown | 623311 Continuing Care Retir | F | 10.5 |
| TechSpec Inc., (TSI Titanium) | Derry | Bar, nonferrous metals (exce | F | 10.5 |
| 1045 Altoona School District | Altoona | Food Service Contractor | F | 10.5 |
| AVP01 | Nanticoke | Internet retail sales sites | F | 10.5 |
| Holiday Inn | Johnstown | Reservation (e.g., airline, | F | 10.5 |
| UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals | Harrisburg | General Medical and Surgical | D | 10.5 |
| Sodexo at St Luke'S Miners Memorial Hosp | Coaldale | Food Service Contractors | F | 10.5 |
| Hunter Truck Sales & Service Inc. - Smithfield | Smithfield | General Automotive Repair | F | 10.5 |
| Viwinco, Inc. | Morgantown | Windows and window frames, v | F | 10.5 |
| M&J Automotive DBA Montrose Buick Gmc Cadillac | Hermitage | Automobile dealers, new only | F | 10.5 |
| 185 Titus Avenue | Warrington | Companion services for disab | F | 10.5 |
| Burger King 6053 | Titusville | Eating Places (Fast Food) | F | 10.5 |
| Pittsburgh-Fayette Express Inc | Belle Vernon | Truck Transportation | F | 10.5 |
| Church of God | Carlisle | Food Service Contractors | F | 10.5 |
| Franklin Labs D/B/A Trulieve | Reading | Tomato farming, grown under | F | 10.5 |
| Meisner Electric, Inc dba M | Allentown | Low voltage electrical work | F | 10.5 |
| Zekelman Industries Wheatland Tube - Council | Wheatland | Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, l | F | 10.5 |
| Harrisburg Air Relief (Pamtl) | Middletown | Courier Services Except by A | D | 10.5 |
| Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Chambersburg | Chambersburg | Canning fruits and vegetable | F | 10.5 |
| Glass Enterprises | Bensalem | Insulating glass, sealed uni | F | 10.5 |
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.