Chemical industries machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Van Air Inc.

Lake City, PA · ~27 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van Air Inc. runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chemical industries machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Van Air Inc.: 1.4 TCR = 63% of Chemical industries machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Air Inc. safety composite

Van Air Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−3.4

2017→2024

Van Air Inc. injury rate improved

Van Air Inc.'s TCR fell 3.4 from 3.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Lake City, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/39
  • PHOTO Kansas City Office
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kansas City Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Van Air Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Air Inc. averages 1.4 TCR (63% of the Chemical industries machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Van Air Inc. TCR series: 2017=3.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Van Air Inc. falls in its industry

911 Chemical industries machinery establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 39 Chemical industries machinery employers in Pennsylvania.

Van Air Inc. (27 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Van Air Inc.
Van Air Inc. (27 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Van Air Inc. has fewer employees than the Chemical industries machinery and equipm median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · PA · Lake City

911 Chemical industries machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 16 employers in Lake City, 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 Kansas City Office 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwest Materials Handling 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waco Warehouse 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nilfisk Brooklyn Park 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Feeney's Wholesale Nursery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunterstown Power Generation 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panda Liberty 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE LMBE Project Company LLC 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR AirBorn Lake City 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maple Donuts 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maple Donuts Erie, LLC 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Technologies 133 FTE
NAT-TCR BRAINTREE-MA06 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gibson Electric 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Products Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR University Park 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brooklawn 10522 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Portland 10256 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precise Hard Chrome 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Romeoville Tire Center 27 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: 2024, 2023, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.