Ambulance services, air or ground · Pennsylvania

Kutztown Area Transport Service

Kutztown, PA · ~40 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
33.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kutztown Area Transport Service runs at 867% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade F.

Kutztown Area Transport Service: 33.0 TCR = 867% of Ambulance services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kutztown Area Transport Service safety composite

Kutztown Area Transport Service scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 32.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−36.2

2019→2023

Kutztown Area Transport Service injury rate improved

Kutztown Area Transport Service's TCR fell 36.2 from 44.2 in 2019 to 8.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 48.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=44.2 · 2020=48.3 · 2021=45.6 · 2022=18.7 · 2023=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Kutztown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 33.0 · 867% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #98/98
  • PHOTO Chandler EMSOperations
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chandler EMSOperations (3.3 TCR gap)

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Kutztown Area Transport Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kutztown Area Transport Service averages 33.0 TCR (867% of the Ambulance services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Kutztown Area Transport Service TCR series: 2019=44.2 · 2020=48.3 · 2021=45.6 · 2022=18.7 · 2023=8 · BLS 3.8

Where Kutztown Area Transport Service falls in its industry

976 Ambulance services, air or gro establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #98 safest of 98 Ambulance services, air or gro employers in Pennsylvania.

Kutztown Area Transport Service (40 employees, TCR 33.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Kutztown Area Transport Service
Kutztown Area Transport Service (40 employees, TCR 33.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Kutztown Area Transport Service has fewer employees than the Ambulance services, air or ground median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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
2023 8.0 8.0 1 0 0
2022 18.7 9.3 3 1 0
2021 45.6 19.0 11 1 0
2020 48.3 41.8 15 0 0
2019 44.2 40.8 11 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · PA · Kutztown

976 Ambulance services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 43 employers in Kutztown, 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 Chandler EMSOperations 29.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tucson AmbulanceOperations 29.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MLSS 29.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond Ambulance Authority 29.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE WAWA SITE - 258 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE WAWA SITE - 8114 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE 180 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Cottage-Hershey 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC 30 - Kutztown, PA 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advance Auto Parts DC 30 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jetson Specialty Marketing Services Inc 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR WIRE AND CABLE 253 FTE
NAT-TCR 048 Juvenile Detention Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockland Facility 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kemper Moving Systems 30.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dove's Morning Fresh Market 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Careage Home Health 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silgan Containers Trenton 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Imperial Plant Ready-Mix 40 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.