Air system balancing and testing · Pennsylvania

R & J Ertel Inc

S Williamsport, PA · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R & J Ertel Inc runs at 291% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air system balancing and testing workplace, earning a grade F.

R & J Ertel Inc: 8.2 TCR = 291% of Air system balancing and testing BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R & J Ertel Inc safety composite

R & J Ertel Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

R & J Ertel Inc: 6.8 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2023

R & J Ertel Inc's TCR rose 2.7 from 6.8 in 2022 to 9.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · S Williamsport, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 291% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #221/268
  • PHOTO RotoCo - Vista
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RotoCo - Vista (0.0 TCR gap)

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R & J Ertel Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R & J Ertel Inc averages 8.2 TCR (291% of the Air system balancing and testing BLS benchmark).

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

R & J Ertel Inc TCR series: 2022=6.8 · 2023=9.5 · BLS 2.8

Where R & J Ertel Inc falls in its industry

5,793 Air system balancing and testi establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #221 safest of 268 Air system balancing and testi employers in Pennsylvania.

R & J Ertel Inc (71 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate R & J Ertel Inc
R & J Ertel Inc (71 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

R & J Ertel Inc has more employees than the Air system balancing and testing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 9.5 4.1 7 0 0
2022 6.8 1.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · PA · S Williamsport

5,793 Air system balancing and testing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 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 RotoCo - Vista 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.A. Comunale - Carolina 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Neuworks Mechanical Inc 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reaco Heating & AC 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE FarmaceuticalRX LLC PA 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hazleton 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.S. Mowery & Sons, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hazleton Site Contractors 71 FTE
NAT-TCR Gca Logging, Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Raley's O-N-E Market 222- Roseville 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR New Perspective - West Fargo 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Neuworks Mechanical Inc 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Horizon Painting Co., Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ciardelli Fuel Company, Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orchard Rehabilitation & HealthCare Center 71 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. 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.