Home health agencies · Pennsylvania

Helpmates - Potter

Ridgway, PA · ~340 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Helpmates - Potter runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home health agencies workplace, earning a grade F.

Helpmates - Potter: 10.6 TCR = 203% of Home health agencies BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Helpmates - Potter safety composite

Helpmates - Potter scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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 - Potter: 9.1 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2017

Helpmates - Potter's TCR rose 2.9 from 9.1 in 2016 to 12.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 203% of ind

  • DART 12.0 DART
  • RANK #333/375
  • PHOTO Madrone Hospice, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~340 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Madrone Hospice, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Helpmates - Potter in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Helpmates - Potter averages 10.6 TCR (203% 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 - Potter TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=12 · BLS 5.2

Where Helpmates - Potter falls in its industry

3,635 Home health agencies establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #333 safest of 375 Home health agencies employers in Pennsylvania.

Helpmates - Potter (340 employees, TCR 10.6) 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 - Potter
Helpmates - Potter (340 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Helpmates - Potter 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 12.0 12.0 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 Madrone Hospice, Inc 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WRV 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clarion Forest VNA, INC 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR STAT Home Health of Northwest LA - Shreveport 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 2945 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5891 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1883 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1911-19110010-005910 340 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 Design-Build Construction Inc. 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR UFP Warrens 217 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Penske : 5187-00 TempurSealy-DCC/Plainfield, IN 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4701 Jennings Ln. Plant 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Provo Center (Utore) 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menlo Park (Camen) 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jet.com FC-6923 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazonas Administration 340 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.