Ambulance services, air or ground · New York

Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc.

Rochester, NY · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.1
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc. runs at 372% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade F.

Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc.: 14.1 TCR = 372% of Ambulance services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc. safety composite

Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−3.4

2023→2024

Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc. injury rate improved

Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc.'s TCR fell 3.4 from 15.8 in 2023 to 12.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=15.8 · 2024=12.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Rochester, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.1 · 372% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #38/53
  • PHOTO Sonoma Operations
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sonoma Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc. averages 14.1 TCR (372% of the Ambulance services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc. TCR series: 2023=15.8 · 2024=12.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc. falls in its industry

976 Ambulance services, air or gro establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 53 Ambulance services, air or gro employers in New York.

Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc. (68 employees, TCR 14.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc.
Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc. (68 employees, TCR 14.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Gates Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc. has fewer employees than the Ambulance services, air or ground median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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
2024 12.4 2.1 4 2 0
2023 15.8 7.9 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · NY · Rochester

976 Ambulance services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 956 employers in Rochester, NY · 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 Sonoma Operations 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oswego County Ambulance & Hearse Service 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR A030 - Life Lion Hangar 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR UPPER ALLEN MUNICIPAL BLDG 14.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunnyside Farms, Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bridgewater Farms LLC 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE CURTIN DAIRY 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stauffer Farms LLC 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Division 50 University of Rochester 13,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochester General Hospital 7,833 FTE
CITY-NEAR Division 40 University of Rochester 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Hospital 3,158 FTE
NAT-TCR Autumn Care of Suffolk 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ignite Medical Resort OKC, LLC 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Scherer Metals 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Commercial Metal Forming 14.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Joliet Il 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Triple Crown Trailers, LLC 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crystal Falls Pools 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE McLarney Construction, Inc 68 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.