Ambulance services, air or ground · Pennsylvania
Tower Health Urgent Care
West Reading, PA · ~287 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 6.1
- Avg TCR
- 3.8
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Tower Health Urgent Care runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ambulance services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade D.
Tower Health Urgent Care: 6.1 TCR = 161% of Ambulance services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Tower Health Urgent Care safety composite
Tower Health Urgent Care scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% 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).
61/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- C 6.13 per 100 workers
Safer than 64% of industry peers
- DART rate
- C 2.37 per 100 workers
Safer than 66% 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
Tower Health Urgent Care: 2.3 → 5.5 TCR
Peak year 2021 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2024
Tower Health Urgent Care's TCR rose 3.3 from 2.3 in 2020 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 621910 · West Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · MID
Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 161% of ind
- DART 2.4 DART
- RANK #33/98
- PHOTO County of Harnett-Em…
- BOOK 5y book
- INJ 29 inj
- SIZE ~287 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: County of Harnett-Emergency Management (0.0 TCR gap)
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Tower Health Urgent Care in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- Emergency Serv
Emergency Services
6.2 TCR
- This site
Tower Health Urgent Care
6.1 TCR
- County of Harn
County of Harnett-Emergency Management
6.1 TCR
- Allina Health
Allina Health Emergency Medical Services St Peter
6.1 TCR
- Kurtz Paramedi
Kurtz Paramedic Service Operations
6.1 TCR
What this shows Tower Health Urgent Care averages 6.1 TCR (161% of the Ambulance services, air or ground BLS benchmark).
Tower Health Urgent Care TCR series: 2020=2.3 · 2021=10.3 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=8.1 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.8
Where Tower Health Urgent Care falls in its industry
976 Ambulance services, air or gro establishmentsSafer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.
Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 98 Ambulance services, air or gro employers in Pennsylvania.
Tower Health Urgent Care has more employees than the Ambulance services, air or ground 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.5 | 2.4 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 8.1 | 5.6 | 7 | 12 | 0 |
| 2022 | 4.4 | 2.6 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2021 | 10.3 | 6.3 | 11 | 15 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
621910 · PA · West Reading
976 Ambulance services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 19 employers in West Reading, 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 | County of Harnett-Emergency Management | 6.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Allina Health Emergency Medical Services St Peter | 6.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Kurtz Paramedic Service Operations | 6.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Emergency Services | 6.2 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Menasha Packaging Company- Grumbacher | 287 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | 10496 Wynnewood | 287 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | 6458-ZLEL | 287 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | PA0451CB8 | 287 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | READING HOSPITAL | 6,246 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | TOWER HEALTH MEDICAL GROUP | 1,638 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Gage Personnel West Reading | 805 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | R. M. Palmer Company - Building #1 | 313 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Piggly Wiggly 283 | 6.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | St Josephs - Rehabilitation | 6.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | S04180 - SD Sioux Falls | 6.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Port of Longview | 6.1 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Woodbine Operator LLC | 287 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | IFS Rome | 287 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | United Construction Group//High Power Electric | 287 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | AVA Pork Products | 287 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.