Paint and wallpaper stripping · New York

John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc.

Elmira, NY · ~63 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc. runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paint and wallpaper stripping workplace, earning a grade B.

John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc.: 2.0 TCR = 71% of Paint and wallpaper stripping BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc. safety composite

John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc.: 2.1 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.97× in 2024

John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.9 from 2.1 in 2022 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Elmira, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 71% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #8/25
  • PHOTO JPI Painting Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JPI Painting Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc. averages 2.0 TCR (71% of the Paint and wallpaper stripping BLS benchmark).

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

John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc. TCR series: 2022=2.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 2.8

Where John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc. falls in its industry

582 Paint and wallpaper stripping establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 25 Paint and wallpaper stripping employers in New York.

John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc.
John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

John H. Cook Jr., Painting Contractor, Inc. has more employees than the Paint and wallpaper stripping median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2024 3.9 3.9 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · NY · Elmira

582 Paint and wallpaper stripping employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 88 employers in Elmira, NY · 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 JPI Painting Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR EASE Painting and Construction Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ghaster Painting and Coatings, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chesapeake Finishing, Inc 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMC East Ave 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NY State Solar HQ 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Kills Substation 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE KJJ Industries LLC 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnot Ogden Medical Center 2,497 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc of Chemung-Schuyler 556 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR DePuy Synthes Horseheads 388 FTE
NAT-TCR 563006-Middlebury | VT | ACY-000 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DED - Grainger 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Clair 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC Vandalia, OH 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Universal Blanchers, dba Olam Edible Nuts Dublin Facility 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intermountain West Insulation Kennewick 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution Management Inc. DC-FRESNO 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denny's 9550 63 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.