Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Behler-Young Company

Grand Rapids, MI · ~219 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Behler-Young Company runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Behler-Young Company: 3.8 TCR = 170% of Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Behler-Young Company safety composite

Behler-Young Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2016→2020

Behler-Young Company injury rate improved

Behler-Young Company's TCR fell 4.5 from 5.6 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.6 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423730 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 170% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #15/23
  • PHOTO API of NH - Manchester
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: API of NH - Manchester (0.0 TCR gap)

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Behler-Young Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Behler-Young Company averages 3.8 TCR (170% of the Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Behler-Young Company TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=1.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Behler-Young Company falls in its industry

290 Heating equipment, warm air (i establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 23 Heating equipment, warm air (i employers in Michigan.

Behler-Young Company (219 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Behler-Young Company
Behler-Young Company (219 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Behler-Young Company has more employees than the Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.1 0.7 3 0 0
2019 2.9 0.9 9 0 0
2018 5.4 4.1 16 0 0
2016 5.6 3.3 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423730 · MI · Grand Rapids

290 Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, MI · 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 API of NH - Manchester 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4192-00051423-ABQ 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insight Partners - Mooresville 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Auer Steel & Heating Supply - NNH 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6375_16048 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Steel City LLC. 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dearborn Sausage Company Inc 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Autodie 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR MRG 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Benet Hall 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FRHC - Bellevue 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Raintree Services Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE KHRG VZ Austin LLC - Hotel Van Zandt 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sloan Duncan 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crane Stationery, LLC 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Journey Group 219 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, 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.