Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground · New York

Mercy Flight, Inc

Buffalo, NY · ~193 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercy Flight, Inc runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade D.

Mercy Flight, Inc: 5.2 TCR = 137% of Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercy Flight, Inc safety composite

Mercy Flight, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−3.6

2018→2021

Mercy Flight, Inc injury rate improved

Mercy Flight, Inc's TCR fell 3.6 from 7.5 in 2018 to 4.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.5 · 2019=4.2 · 2021=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 137% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #13/53
  • PHOTO Superior Air Ground …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~193 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Superior Air Ground Ambulance Service of Wisconsin, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercy Flight, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercy Flight, Inc averages 5.2 TCR (137% of the Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

Mercy Flight, Inc TCR series: 2018=7.5 · 2019=4.2 · 2021=4 · BLS 3.8

Where Mercy Flight, Inc falls in its industry

976 Emergency medical transportati establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 53 Emergency medical transportati employers in New York.

Mercy Flight, Inc (193 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Mercy Flight, Inc
Mercy Flight, Inc (193 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Mercy Flight, Inc has more employees than the Emergency medical transportation service median and a lower 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
2021 4.0 2.3 4 3 0
2019 4.2 3.6 6 1 0
2018 7.5 5.8 10 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · NY · Buffalo

976 Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 532 employers in Buffalo, 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 Superior Air Ground Ambulance Service of Wisconsin, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SD,Sioux Falls-Maverick Air Center-Ambulance Services 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMS SPRINGFIELD 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acadian - Houston District 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Neptune Service Ctr 193 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cord Contracting Co., Inc 193 FTE
STATE-SIZE UNC - West Seneca 193 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Fountainhead Group,Inc. 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo General Hospital 3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital of Buffalo 2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR WNY Independent Living, Inc. 1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital 1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR Complete Feed Service L.L.C. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR General Labels & Printing, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Baptist Health Madisonville 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Buellton CA 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Interim Healthcare of Delaware, LLC 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parks and recreation 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE RK#, LLC DBA/Addington Place at College Harbor 193 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: 2021, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.