Painting and wallpapering · Pennsylvania

A J Vater & Co, Inc

Mckees Rocks, PA · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A J Vater & Co, Inc runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade C.

A J Vater & Co, Inc: 3.0 TCR = 108% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A J Vater & Co, Inc safety composite

A J Vater & Co, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

A J Vater & Co, Inc: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2019

A J Vater & Co, Inc's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Mckees Rocks, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 108% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #8/20
  • PHOTO Vertex Coatings, Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vertex Coatings, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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A J Vater & Co, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A J Vater & Co, Inc averages 3.0 TCR (108% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).

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

A J Vater & Co, Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=1.8 · BLS 2.8

Where A J Vater & Co, Inc falls in its industry

582 Painting and wallpapering establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 20 Painting and wallpapering employers in Pennsylvania.

A J Vater & Co, Inc (54 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate A J Vater & Co, Inc
A J Vater & Co, Inc (54 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

A J Vater & Co, Inc has more employees than the Painting and wallpapering median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2019 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2018 7.3 0.0 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · PA · Mckees Rocks

582 Painting and wallpapering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 37 employers in Mckees Rocks, 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 Vertex Coatings, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steinbrecher Painting Company 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR P S Bruckel, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEIN BROTHERS, LLC 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE TRIPLE-M-FARMS 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scrubgrass Reclamation Company L.P. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 269-NiSource-Washington PA-Service 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wagman Construction Inc. 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ohio Valley Hospital 616 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heritage Valley Health System - Kennedy Campus 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR Citizen Care 443 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milestone Centers 294 FTE
NAT-TCR Galesville 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DuBois Chemicals dba (BHS) 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland of Canton 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Frattallone's Ace Hardware-St. Louis Park 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anderson 15 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phillips Contracting company Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olympus Kennewick 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chemung 54 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: 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.