Heating oil dealers, direct selling · New York

John Ray & Sons

Troy, NY · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John Ray & Sons runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Heating oil dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade D.

John Ray & Sons: 4.5 TCR = 133% of Heating oil dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John Ray & Sons safety composite

John Ray & Sons scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2022→2024

John Ray & Sons injury rate improved

John Ray & Sons's TCR fell 3.5 from 5.5 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.5 · 2023=6.0 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Troy, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 133% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #22/49
  • PHOTO 5100-DRC-DRT-BUCKSPORT
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5100-DRC-DRT-BUCKSPORT (0.0 TCR gap)

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John Ray & Sons in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John Ray & Sons averages 4.5 TCR (133% of the Heating oil dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

John Ray & Sons TCR series: 2022=5.5 · 2023=6 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.4

Where John Ray & Sons falls in its industry

366 Heating oil dealers, direct se establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 49 Heating oil dealers, direct se employers in New York.

John Ray & Sons (48 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 020406080100 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate John Ray & Sons
John Ray & Sons (48 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

John Ray & Sons has more employees than the Heating oil dealers, direct selling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2023 6.0 4.0 2 1 0
2022 5.5 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · NY · Troy

366 Heating oil dealers, direct selling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 97 employers in Troy, 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 5100-DRC-DRT-BUCKSPORT 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGas - Spartanburg, SC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Honesdale Branch 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR R31 New Bern, NC 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kreher Enterprises LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE SENECA STREET CREW LOCATION-NY04 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE NIAGARA FALLS SERVICE CENTER-NY37 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enbridge St. Lawrence Gas - Massena 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Peter's Health Partners/ Samaritan Hospital 2,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Hospital 1,709 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Hospital-Troy-SPHP-NY 1,466 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital- Troy/Seton Health 807 FTE
NAT-TCR Evans Distribution Systems - Headquarters 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MOM's Organic Market - Gaithersburg 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kennett 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Container DBA Key Container Company 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE GL Bailey Plumbing Co., Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE DR Roof Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel De Anza 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altium Packaging 48 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.