Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors · Florida

Air-Ref Co. Inc

Delray Beach, FL · ~100 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Air-Ref Co. Inc runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Air-Ref Co. Inc: 3.4 TCR = 121% of Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Air-Ref Co. Inc safety composite

Air-Ref Co. Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Air-Ref Co. Inc: 2.7 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2023

Air-Ref Co. Inc's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.7 in 2022 to 4.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Delray Beach, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 121% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #188/425
  • PHOTO Rocky Mountain Mecha…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rocky Mountain Mechanical (0.0 TCR gap)

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Air-Ref Co. Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Air-Ref Co. Inc averages 3.4 TCR (121% of the Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Air-Ref Co. Inc TCR series: 2022=2.7 · 2023=4.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Air-Ref Co. Inc falls in its industry

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-c establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #188 safest of 425 Heating, ventilation and air-c employers in Florida.

Air-Ref Co. Inc (100 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Air-Ref Co. Inc
Air-Ref Co. Inc (100 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Air-Ref Co. Inc has more employees than the Heating, ventilation and air-conditionin median and a higher 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 4.1 4.1 4 0 0
2022 2.7 2.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · FL · Delray Beach

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 108 employers in Delray Beach, FL · 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 Rocky Mountain Mechanical 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bruce Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SFT Inc 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR D. Burke Mechanical Corporation 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Star Farms Corp 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apopka Complex 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE 460 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gator Grading & Paving 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR 200 DELRAY MEDICAL CENTER 1,737 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-200 1,727 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delray Medical Center 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pero Family Farms Foods Co, LLC 871 FTE
NAT-TCR Nye Pointe 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ayer 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR BFG Supply Co-Grand Rapids 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Eugene Water and Electric Board 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Porter Regional Hospital Evs 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.K. Residential Services, Inc. 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial HVAC Americas : SVC-Great Lakes : SVC-Grand Rapids MI USA 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regency at the Park 100 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. 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.