Bottled gas dealers, direct selling · Pennsylvania

Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc.

Hooversville, PA · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc. runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bottled gas dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade F.

Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc.: 8.2 TCR = 241% of Bottled gas dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc. safety composite

Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.56 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

Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc.: 0.0 → 16.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2023

Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc.'s TCR rose 16.4 from 0.0 in 2022 to 16.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Hooversville, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 241% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #20/29
  • PHOTO SUPERIOR PLUS - 0105
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SUPERIOR PLUS - 0105 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc. averages 8.2 TCR (241% of the Bottled gas dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=16.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc. falls in its industry

366 Bottled gas dealers, direct se establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 29 Bottled gas dealers, direct se employers in Pennsylvania.

Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc. (30 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc.
Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc. (30 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc. has fewer employees than the Bottled gas dealers, direct selling median and a higher 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
2023 16.4 6.6 5 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · PA · Hooversville

366 Bottled gas dealers, direct selling 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 SUPERIOR PLUS - 0105 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cota & Cota INC 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Petro NNJ - Kenvil 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Retail East - Hawley 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Esbenshade Maytown 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE BJE Poultry 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Energy Resources, LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panda Patriot, LLC 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHAFFERS BOTTLED GAS, INC 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0294 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-070-Bonita Springs ( RK-070 ) 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PRT Brighton 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HarHos Management, LLC 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hawthorne 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE CPG Cincinnati 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roswell Service Center-116 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE High Bridge Combined Cycle-SK 30 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.