Trucking, general freight, local · Pennsylvania

J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc

Orwigsburg, PA · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Trucking, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade B.

J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc: 2.9 TCR = 64% of Trucking, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc safety composite

J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

Rising injury rate

J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc: 2.4 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2019

J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.4 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Orwigsburg, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 64% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #43/194
  • PHOTO Guy W Shoup Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Guy W Shoup Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc averages 2.9 TCR (64% of the Trucking, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2019=3.4 · BLS 4.5

Where J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc falls in its industry

2,784 Trucking, general freight, loc establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 194 Trucking, general freight, loc employers in Pennsylvania.

J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc (27 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc
J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc (27 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

J. Marlin Ernst & Sons Inc has fewer employees than the Trucking, general freight, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2019 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2016 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · PA · Orwigsburg

2,784 Trucking, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 22 employers in Orwigsburg, 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 Guy W Shoup Inc 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 124T Tampa 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRONT ROYAL (VAFRL) 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR IL_SouthElgin_100 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Feeney's Wholesale Nursery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunterstown Power Generation 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panda Liberty 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE LMBE Project Company LLC 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boyers Food Market Inc 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Environmental StoneWorks - Owrigsburg, PA 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Shalmet 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR 340 South Liberty St. 113 FTE
NAT-TCR Avera Physicians Plaza 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wade Manufacturing Company: Wadesboro Plant 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stylex Seating 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Mental Health Center 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE #189 Art Van Batavia 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE #55 Art Van Holland 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fryman-Kuck General Contractors Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brew Detroit, LLC 27 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: 2019, 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.