Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers · California

BAVCO

Long Beach, CA · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BAVCO runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

BAVCO: 0.6 TCR = 27% of Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BAVCO safety composite

BAVCO scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% 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%).

BAVCO held a steady TCR band

BAVCO's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · Long Beach, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/85
  • PHOTO Ferguson Enterprises…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ferguson Enterprises LLC: KY Erlanger - 2700 Crescent Springs Pike (0.0 TCR gap)

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BAVCO in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BAVCO averages 0.6 TCR (27% of the Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

BAVCO TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

Where BAVCO falls in its industry

853 Plumbing and heating valves me establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 85 Plumbing and heating valves me employers in California.

BAVCO (31 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 BAVCO
BAVCO (31 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

BAVCO has fewer employees than the Plumbing and heating valves merchant who 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · CA · Long Beach

853 Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 614 employers in Long Beach, CA · 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 Ferguson Enterprises LLC: KY Erlanger - 2700 Crescent Springs Pike 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3008 - Phoenix 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schmidt's Wholesale 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Billerica 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE GCF 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nielsen Farms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Star Nurseries LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Growers Inc 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorialcare Long Beach Medical Center 3,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR LBM00 LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MED CENTER 3,552 FTE
CITY-NEAR Total Terminals International, LLC. 2,683 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 300 2,621 FTE
NAT-TCR Laureate Group 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mountain V Oil & Gas, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 930 Soundview Ave 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. INC 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rost 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson Welding & Gas Products 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Armstrong Flooring Incorporated - Beech Creek 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSI Medina 31 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.