Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Wilkes Barre, PA

Wilkes Barre, PA · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wilkes Barre, PA runs at 484% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Wilkes Barre, PA: 10.7 TCR = 484% of Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wilkes Barre, PA safety composite

Wilkes Barre, PA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Wilkes Barre, PA: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 28.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2019

Wilkes Barre, PA's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 28.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423730 · Wilkes Barre, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 484% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO 20
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 20 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wilkes Barre, PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wilkes Barre, PA averages 10.7 TCR (484% of the Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Wilkes Barre, PA TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=28.1 · 2019=3.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Wilkes Barre, PA falls in its industry

290 Heating equipment, warm air (i establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #8 safest of 10 Heating equipment, warm air (i employers in Pennsylvania.

Wilkes Barre, PA (42 employees, TCR 10.7) 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Wilkes Barre, PA
Wilkes Barre, PA (42 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Wilkes Barre, PA has fewer employees than the Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced median and a higher 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
2019 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2018 28.1 14.0 11 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423730 · PA · Wilkes Barre

290 Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 86 employers in Wilkes Barre, 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 20 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnstone- Sacramento 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daikin Comfort Technologies - City of Industry 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Temperature Systems Incorporated 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Needhams Mushroom Farm 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE KSS Sales 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hopewell Organics, LLC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEISINGER WYOMING VALLEY MEDIC 2,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR AVP1 1,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkes Barre Hospital Company, LLC 1,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Dynamics OTS (Wilkes-Barre), LLC 517 FTE
NAT-TCR ERMC - Hamilton Place Mall 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers # 103 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Spring Meadows Trumbull 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Healthpark Hospice House 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE DSW Cutting 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warehouse 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Dog HK 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Long Beach Terminals 42 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.