Commercial freezer installation · Iowa

AC & R Specialists

Sioux City, IA · ~49 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AC & R Specialists runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial freezer installation workplace, earning a grade C.

AC & R Specialists: 2.4 TCR = 85% of Commercial freezer installation BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AC & R Specialists safety composite

AC & R Specialists scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

AC & R Specialists: 0.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2023

AC & R Specialists's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Sioux City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 85% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #35/94
  • PHOTO Mechanical Design Sy…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mechanical Design Systems, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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AC & R Specialists in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AC & R Specialists averages 2.4 TCR (85% of the Commercial freezer installation BLS benchmark).

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

AC & R Specialists TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=2 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 2.8

Where AC & R Specialists falls in its industry

5,793 Commercial freezer installatio establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 94 Commercial freezer installatio employers in Iowa.

AC & R Specialists (49 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate AC & R Specialists
AC & R Specialists (49 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

AC & R Specialists has fewer employees than the Commercial freezer installation 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
2023 3.3 1.7 2 0 0
2022 4.9 1.6 3 0 0
2021 2.0 0.0 0 1 0
2020 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IA · Sioux City

5,793 Commercial freezer installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, IA · 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 Mechanical Design Systems, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR On Point HVAC Corp 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walker J Walker 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Fire Protection Systems, LLC 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Marshalltown, IA 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms West 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIPCO - Cedar Rapids 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Annadel Builders Incorporated 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR T&B Electric Co., Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hometown Food Company 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Oxco, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverside Ca - Jurupa 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chino, CA (CCG) 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE 012-MOTIE Bunker 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Egelhof Controls Corp. 49 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.