Home health agencies · Pennsylvania

Helpmates - Elk

Ridgway, PA · ~350 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Helpmates - Elk runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home health agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

Helpmates - Elk: 6.4 TCR = 124% of Home health agencies BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Helpmates - Elk safety composite

Helpmates - Elk scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.4

2016→2017

Helpmates - Elk injury rate improved

Helpmates - Elk's TCR fell 5.4 from 9.1 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.1 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.1 · 2017=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Ridgway, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 124% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #234/375
  • PHOTO In Your Golden Years…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~350 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: In Your Golden Years, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Helpmates - Elk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Helpmates - Elk averages 6.4 TCR (124% of the Home health agencies BLS benchmark).

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

Helpmates - Elk TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=3.7 · BLS 5.2

Where Helpmates - Elk falls in its industry

3,635 Home health agencies establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #234 safest of 375 Home health agencies employers in Pennsylvania.

Helpmates - Elk (350 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Helpmates - Elk
Helpmates - Elk (350 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Helpmates - Elk has more employees than the Home health agencies median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2017 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2016 9.1 4.6 36 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · PA · Ridgway

3,635 Home health agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 46 employers in Ridgway, 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 In Your Golden Years, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WIM 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Excell Private Care Services - Tulsa 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NJ Home Care of Mercer County 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Muncy Manufacturing Facility - KNA 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay Valley Foods 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE Globus Medical Branch 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE Armstrong World Industries - Marietta Ceiling Plant 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR Helpmates - Huntingdon 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Axle & Manufacturing Ridgway 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Helpmates - Crawford 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Helpmates - Warren 354 FTE
NAT-TCR Albuquerque (Nmalb) 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Goldsboro Center (Ncgol) 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Temecula (Caper) 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wingate at Sudbury 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frito Lay - Casa Grande 350 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coffeyville Resources 350 FTE
NAT-SIZE COLSA Corporation - Florida 350 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marietta Corporation-Central Ave Properties Inc. 350 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: 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.