Central heating equipment and piping installation · California

Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz

Soquel, CA · ~87 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Central heating equipment and piping installation workplace, earning a grade C.

Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz: 2.5 TCR = 91% of Central heating equipment and piping installation BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz safety composite

Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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)
C 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz: 1.5 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz's TCR rose 2.7 from 1.5 in 2020 to 4.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Soquel, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 91% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #196/594
  • PHOTO Standard Refrigerati…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Standard Refrigeration Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz averages 2.5 TCR (91% 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

Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz TCR series: 2020=1.5 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz falls in its industry

5,793 Central heating equipment and establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #196 safest of 594 Central heating equipment and employers in California.

Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz (87 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz
Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz (87 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz has more employees than the Central heating equipment and piping ins 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
2024 4.2 2.1 4 0 0
2023 3.3 2.2 3 0 0
2022 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2020 1.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Soquel

5,793 Central heating equipment and piping installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 14 employers in Soquel, 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 Standard Refrigeration Co Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global Fire Sprinklers, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beckley Mechanical Main Office 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydro Mechanical of Ohio 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Martinelli Vineyard Management, Inc 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE farming 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE A. SAMBADO & SON INC 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Agromillora California 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR JPS 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0025-0025-01929 FAC-01929-SOQUEL-CA 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-01929 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6968 SOQUEL 125 FTE
NAT-TCR Renal Home Patient - P and F (Waukegan IL USA - P and F) 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR League City 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mapei West Chicago 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Greene Welding Hardware 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE park place 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden Heights Personal Care Home 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lutsen Mountains 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Hadley 87 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.