Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers · Texas

1049 HVAC - Houston

Houston, TX · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1049 HVAC - Houston runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

1049 HVAC - Houston: 2.2 TCR = 99% of Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1049 HVAC - Houston safety composite

1049 HVAC - Houston scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.3

2022→2024

1049 HVAC - Houston injury rate improved

1049 HVAC - Houston's TCR fell 4.3 from 4.3 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.2 · 99% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #37/93
  • PHOTO 3004 - Mesa
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3004 - Mesa (0.0 TCR gap)

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1049 HVAC - Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1049 HVAC - Houston averages 2.2 TCR (99% of the Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

1049 HVAC - Houston TCR series: 2022=4.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where 1049 HVAC - Houston falls in its industry

853 Valves, plumbing and heating, establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 93 Valves, plumbing and heating, employers in Texas.

1049 HVAC - Houston (33 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1049 HVAC - Houston
1049 HVAC - Houston (33 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

1049 HVAC - Houston has fewer employees than the Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant w median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.3 4.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · TX · Houston

853 Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 3004 - Mesa 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thos. Somerville Co. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WSS DENVER REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION CTR 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4220 Saguaro Trail 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE SW Seed Company New Deal 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Houston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tejas Feeders LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrims LIVE OPERATIONS 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Parksite 103 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Prent 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Poclain Hydraulics 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Spies Pool Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Piana Nonwovens AZ LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn Dover 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gallagher Adult 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grille Tech inc 33 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, 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.