Plumbing fixtures merchant wholesalers · Connecticut

Bender Plumbing

Bridgeport, CT · ~15 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bender Plumbing runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plumbing fixtures merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Bender Plumbing: 4.2 TCR = 192% of Plumbing fixtures merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bender Plumbing safety composite

Bender Plumbing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bender Plumbing: 4.8 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Bender Plumbing's TCR rose 3.1 from 4.8 in 2018 to 7.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · Bridgeport, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 192% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/31
  • PHOTO Ferguson Enterprises…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ferguson Enterprises LLC: TX Houston - 1809 Brittmoore Road (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bender Plumbing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bender Plumbing averages 4.2 TCR (192% of the Plumbing fixtures merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Bender Plumbing TCR series: 2018=4.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Bender Plumbing falls in its industry

853 Plumbing fixtures merchant who establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 31 Plumbing fixtures merchant who employers in Connecticut.

Bender Plumbing (15 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Bender Plumbing
Bender Plumbing (15 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Bender Plumbing has fewer employees than the Plumbing fixtures merchant wholesalers 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
2020 7.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · CT · Bridgeport

853 Plumbing fixtures merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 150 employers in Bridgeport, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Ferguson Enterprises LLC: TX Houston - 1809 Brittmoore Road 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PACE Supply Dublin Branch 14 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSC St. Louis 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferguson Enterprises LLC: OH Celina - 7097 Harris Road 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE SCL 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE WPCA 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tilson Technology Management, Inc. East Hartford 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Town of Winchester Public Works 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bridgeport Hospital 3,332 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Vincent's Medical Center - Bridgeport Campus 2,340 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST VINCENTS MEDICAL CENTER - BRIDGEPORT 2,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-CTBRI1 2,079 FTE
NAT-TCR Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (102) 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Save A Lot #413 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Med West - St. Louis 90-48-34-32 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LaForce - Vernon Hills 4.2 TCR

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.