Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground · Pennsylvania

Northwest EMS, Inc.

Elizabethtown, PA · ~63 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Northwest EMS, Inc. runs at 285% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade F.

Northwest EMS, Inc.: 10.8 TCR = 285% of Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest EMS, Inc. safety composite

Northwest EMS, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−1.4

2016→2023

Northwest EMS, Inc. injury rate improved

Northwest EMS, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.4 from 6.8 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 21.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.8 · 2017=21.5 · 2018=13.8 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=10.3 · 2022=13.4 · 2023=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 285% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #57/98
  • PHOTO MedTrans
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MedTrans (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwest EMS, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest EMS, Inc. averages 10.8 TCR (285% 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

Northwest EMS, Inc. TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=21.5 · 2018=13.8 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=10.3 · 2022=13.4 · 2023=5.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Northwest EMS, Inc. falls in its industry

976 Emergency medical transportati establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #57 safest of 98 Emergency medical transportati employers in Pennsylvania.

Northwest EMS, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Northwest EMS, Inc.
Northwest EMS, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Northwest EMS, Inc. has fewer employees than the Emergency medical transportation service 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 5.4 1.8 2 1 0
2022 13.4 5.8 6 1 0
2021 10.3 5.2 2 2 0
2020 5.5 0.0 1 2 1
2019 10.1 4.0 5 0 0
2018 13.8 11.8 7 0 0
2017 21.5 17.2 7 3 0
2016 6.8 2.3 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · PA · Elizabethtown

976 Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 47 employers in Elizabethtown, 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 MedTrans 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NorthWest EMS 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NET Care Inc 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR National EMS 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hillandale Gettysburg LP DBA Hillandale Farms - Atlantic 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Rose Interior Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Oilfield Solutions 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masonic Villages at Elizabethtown 1,879 FTE
CITY-NEAR ELZ 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8010130 Mars Snackfood Elizabethtown 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DPH7 248 FTE
NAT-TCR American House - Westland Joy 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Split Rail Fence Company LLC 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill - East 34th Street 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nissen Chemitec America Inc 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Silgan Containers Sacramento 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitek 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Perspective Franklin 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.