Commercial refrigeration equipment repair and maintenance services · Massachusetts

American Refrigeration Company

Andover, MA · ~115 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Refrigeration Company runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial refrigeration equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

American Refrigeration Company: 4.1 TCR = 194% of Commercial refrigeration equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Refrigeration Company safety composite

American Refrigeration Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−3.3

2019→2020

American Refrigeration Company injury rate improved

American Refrigeration Company's TCR fell 3.3 from 5.7 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.7 · 2020=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Andover, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 194% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #16/31
  • PHOTO Belleville, PA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Belleville, PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Refrigeration Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Refrigeration Company averages 4.1 TCR (194% of the Commercial refrigeration equipment repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

American Refrigeration Company TCR series: 2019=5.7 · 2020=2.4 · BLS 2.1

Where American Refrigeration Company falls in its industry

2,560 Commercial refrigeration equip establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 31 Commercial refrigeration equip employers in Massachusetts.

American Refrigeration Company (115 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate American Refrigeration Company
American Refrigeration Company (115 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

American Refrigeration Company has more employees than the Commercial refrigeration equipment repai median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2020 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2019 5.7 5.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · MA · Andover

2,560 Commercial refrigeration equipment repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 78 employers in Andover, MA · 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 Belleville, PA 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Repair Center KC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Praxair Youngstown 942 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cornerstone Mechanical Services, Inc. 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Salem Glass Company 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lynnfield MA Branch 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Book Company - North Chelmsford 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pace Industries - Cambridge Division 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Philips NAM Field Sales & Service 4,812 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Andover_MA 4,577 FTE
CITY-NEAR Philips Healthcare 2,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer, Inc. 2,276 FTE
NAT-TCR West Branch Home Care 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Northridge Village 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Young Engineers, Inc., the 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CCI:CC021 - CC021- Fairfield, CA 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Union Tank Car Company - Altoona, PA 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCAN - Ashtabula 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manor Care Health Services Jersey Shore 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer DC-804 115 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.