Home health agencies · Pennsylvania

Helpmates - Jefferson

Ridgway, PA · ~344 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Helpmates - Jefferson runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home health agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

Helpmates - Jefferson: 8.4 TCR = 162% of Home health agencies BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Helpmates - Jefferson safety composite

Helpmates - Jefferson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Helpmates - Jefferson: 0.0 → 16.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 16.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

Helpmates - Jefferson's TCR rose 16.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 16.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.4 · 162% of ind

  • DART 16.8 DART
  • RANK #300/375
  • PHOTO Personal Touch Home …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~344 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Personal Touch Home Care & Hospice of VA - (0.0 TCR gap)

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Helpmates - Jefferson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Helpmates - Jefferson averages 8.4 TCR (162% 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 - Jefferson TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=16.8 · BLS 5.2

Where Helpmates - Jefferson falls in its industry

3,635 Home health agencies establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #300 safest of 375 Home health agencies employers in Pennsylvania.

Helpmates - Jefferson (344 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 - Jefferson
Helpmates - Jefferson (344 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Helpmates - Jefferson 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 16.8 16.8 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 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 Personal Touch Home Care & Hospice of VA - 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Gardens at Gettysburg 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 330 Community Dr 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buena Vista Hospice 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2230 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2611 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2023 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5034 BREININGSVILLE RDC 344 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 QSI Dawson 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Century Facility 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DPW Administration & Streets 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Phifer Temple Avenue 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakewood (Njlak) 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norwalk (Ctnlk) 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pace industries, Harrison Division 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylor Farms Artesian 344 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.