Central heating equipment and piping installation · Illinois

A&R Mechanical Contractors

Urbana, IL · ~144 workers · 8 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

A&R Mechanical Contractors runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Central heating equipment and piping installation workplace, earning a grade D.

A&R Mechanical Contractors: 3.4 TCR = 123% of Central heating equipment and piping installation BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A&R Mechanical Contractors safety composite

A&R Mechanical Contractors scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−2.6

2016→2024

A&R Mechanical Contractors injury rate improved

A&R Mechanical Contractors's TCR fell 2.6 from 3.9 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.9 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Urbana, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 123% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #160/230
  • PHOTO McDowall Company
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McDowall Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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A&R Mechanical Contractors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A&R Mechanical Contractors averages 3.4 TCR (123% of the Central heating equipment and piping installation BLS benchmark).

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

A&R Mechanical Contractors TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 2.8

Where A&R Mechanical Contractors falls in its industry

5,793 Central heating equipment and establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #160 safest of 230 Central heating equipment and employers in Illinois.

A&R Mechanical Contractors (144 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 A&R Mechanical Contractors
A&R Mechanical Contractors (144 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

A&R Mechanical Contractors has more employees than the Central heating equipment and piping ins 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
2024 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2023 2.4 0.0 3 0 0
2022 3.1 1.6 4 0 0
2021 4.8 1.8 8 0 0
2020 3.7 1.4 8 0 0
2019 2.7 2.0 3 1 0
2018 5.5 2.4 7 0 0
2016 3.9 1.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IL · Urbana

5,793 Central heating equipment and piping installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 95 employers in Urbana, IL · 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 McDowall Company 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gale Plumbing & Hydronics, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cii Engineered Systems, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robies Refrigeration, Inc. 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Muller Pinehurst Dairy Inc 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norman Mechanical Inc 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Suter Company, Inc. (May) 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kingery Printing Company 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Urbana Campus 23,671 FTE
CITY-NEAR CARLE 18,152 FTE
CITY-NEAR CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL 8,566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heart of Mary Medical Center 651 FTE
NAT-TCR Ohio Gas Company 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Autocam Corporation 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Glen Carbide, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Corpus Christi 3210 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE National Maintenance & Repair Kentucky 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE FL-Orlando 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spotswood Plant 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bennington 144 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.