New car dealers · Pennsylvania

AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford

Natrona Heights, PA · ~57 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical New car dealers workplace, earning a grade D.

AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford: 4.6 TCR = 134% of New car dealers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford safety composite

AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford: 3.6 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford's TCR rose 1.9 from 3.6 in 2019 to 5.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Natrona Heights, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 134% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #106/168
  • PHOTO Jim Burke Ford
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jim Burke Ford (0.0 TCR gap)

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AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford averages 4.6 TCR (134% of the New car dealers BLS benchmark).

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

AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford TCR series: 2019=3.6 · 2020=5.5 · BLS 3.4

Where AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford falls in its industry

2,847 New car dealers establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #106 safest of 168 New car dealers employers in Pennsylvania.

AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford (57 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford
AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford (57 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

AV Ford, Inc., dba Cochran Ford has fewer employees than the New car dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2020 5.5 0.0 3 0 0
2019 3.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · PA · Natrona Heights

2,847 New car dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 22 employers in Natrona Heights, 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 Jim Burke Ford 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2341 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tasca Automotive Group Melbourne Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AITKIN AUTO GROUP INC 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE John R. Stinson & Sons Inc 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Leaf Medical LLC. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt. Pleasant Egg 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mother Earth, LLC 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR ALLEGHENY VALLEY HOSPITAL 809 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3738 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3738 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR Natrona Heights Operations (NHO) 161 FTE
NAT-TCR Marinemax Northeast, LLC-Ny5 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 898 Naples, Fl 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites/Green Mill Restaurant 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brandtjen & Kluge, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coleman Crisis Services 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE MOR 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE VI Manufacturing 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calipatria Farm 57 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: 2020, 2019. 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.