Home health agencies · Pennsylvania

Helpmates - Erie

Ridgway, PA · ~349 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Helpmates - Erie runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Home health agencies workplace, earning a grade C.

Helpmates - Erie: 4.6 TCR = 88% of Home health agencies BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Helpmates - Erie safety composite

Helpmates - Erie scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−9.1

2016→2017

Helpmates - Erie injury rate improved

Helpmates - Erie's TCR fell 9.1 from 9.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.1 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.1 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Ridgway, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.6 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #156/375
  • PHOTO Comfort Keepers
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~349 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Comfort Keepers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Helpmates - Erie in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Helpmates - Erie averages 4.6 TCR (88% 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 - Erie TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=0 · BLS 5.2

Where Helpmates - Erie falls in its industry

3,635 Home health agencies establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #156 safest of 375 Home health agencies employers in Pennsylvania.

Helpmates - Erie (349 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 - Erie
Helpmates - Erie (349 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Helpmates - Erie 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 0.0 0.0 0 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 Comfort Keepers 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIL 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silver Angels of Sevier 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Helpmates - Clinton/Lycoming 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE GERTRUDE HAWK INGREDIENTS 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fujirebio Diagnostics Inc., Malvern 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenleaf Corporation 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE HYDAC Technology Corp. 349 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 Bryan Metals 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bryan Center 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CNH_Grand_Island 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Indianapolis 81st (Ini81) 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sioux Falls (Sdsio) 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corp-Yca-Corporate Office 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE 630 - Boston 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo 349 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.