Bottled gas dealers, direct selling · Pennsylvania

AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa

Ruffs Dale, PA · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bottled gas dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade D.

AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa: 5.0 TCR = 149% of Bottled gas dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa safety composite

AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2016→2018

AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa injury rate improved

AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa's TCR fell 2.8 from 6.6 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.6 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Ruffs Dale, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 149% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #10/29
  • PHOTO STAFFORD OIL COMPANY
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STAFFORD OIL COMPANY (0.0 TCR gap)

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AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa averages 5.0 TCR (149% of the Bottled gas dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.8 · BLS 3.4

Where AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa falls in its industry

366 Bottled gas dealers, direct se establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 29 Bottled gas dealers, direct se employers in Pennsylvania.

AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa (58 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 020406080100 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa
AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa (58 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa has more employees than the Bottled gas dealers, direct selling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2018 3.8 3.8 2 0 0
2017 4.8 1.6 3 0 0
2016 6.6 4.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · PA · Ruffs Dale

366 Bottled gas dealers, direct selling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 5 employers in Ruffs Dale, 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 STAFFORD OIL COMPANY 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGas - ACE-Conroe, TX 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGas (Region 21) 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lewisy Fuel Oil, Inc 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Menu Mate Mushroom Farm 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE CannTech 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE PA Location 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moyer's Hatchery 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Menasha Packaging Company - Yukon 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR AmeriGas- ACE - Ruffs Dale, PA 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR AmeriGas- ACE - Ruffs Dale 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR T R Trucking & Excavating, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-TCR BioSystems International, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Landscape Services 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MEDFORD 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Transport Corporation -Charlotte 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE AC Corporation - Winston-Salem 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE 659 Monroe ROC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Malden N and R LLC 58 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: 2018, 2017, 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.