Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers · Connecticut

Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated

New Haven, CT · ~82 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated: 1.8 TCR = 82% of Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated safety composite

Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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 Supplies, Incorporated: 1.3 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2024

Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.3 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · New Haven, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 82% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #3/31
  • PHOTO Ferguson Enterprises…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ferguson Enterprises LLC: CA Corona - 545 Alcoa Circle, Suite 102 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated averages 1.8 TCR (82% 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

Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated falls in its industry

853 Plumbing and heating valves me establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #3 safest of 31 Plumbing and heating valves me employers in Connecticut.

Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated (82 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Supplies, Incorporated
Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated (82 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Bender Plumbing Supplies, Incorporated has more 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
2024 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2016 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · CT · New Haven

853 Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 233 employers in New Haven, CT · 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: CA Corona - 545 Alcoa Circle, Suite 102 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baystate Winsupply Co. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LB Water- Chambersburg 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hajoca Corporation - 403 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE GROWER DIRECT FARMS 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silktown Roofing, Inc./Manchester CT 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Windsor Service 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aerospace Techniques Inc. 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yale-New Haven Hospital 15,725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation 3,514 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Haven Sales/Admin. 1,001 FTE
CITY-NEAR Administrative Office 978 FTE
NAT-TCR South Beach 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Natech Plastics 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR VineBrook Homes, LLC. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR K.T.G. (USA) Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Denver Co - 337 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abilities,Inc. of Fl 4000 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fayetteville Nc - 267 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hammond in - 160 82 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, 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.