Plumbing contractors · California

Bill Howe Plumbing

Ssan Diego, CA · ~137 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bill Howe Plumbing runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plumbing contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Bill Howe Plumbing: 4.5 TCR = 161% of Plumbing contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bill Howe Plumbing safety composite

Bill Howe Plumbing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

Bill Howe Plumbing: 2.8 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.25× in 2023

Bill Howe Plumbing's TCR rose 2.3 from 2.8 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Ssan Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 161% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #338/594
  • PHOTO United Mechanical, I…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Mechanical, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bill Howe Plumbing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bill Howe Plumbing averages 4.5 TCR (161% of the Plumbing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Bill Howe Plumbing TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=5.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Bill Howe Plumbing falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing contractors establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #338 safest of 594 Plumbing contractors employers in California.

Bill Howe Plumbing (137 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Bill Howe Plumbing
Bill Howe Plumbing (137 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Bill Howe Plumbing has more employees than the Plumbing contractors 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
2023 5.1 1.1 9 0 0
2022 2.8 1.7 5 0 0
2021 7.1 3.2 11 0 0
2020 3.6 1.4 5 0 0
2019 6.1 2.0 9 0 0
2018 4.1 4.1 6 0 0
2017 2.8 0.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Ssan Diego

5,793 Plumbing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 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 United Mechanical, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RRSC Charlotte 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR A&W Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DIVERSIFIED FARM LABOR INC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE A C FARM LABOR CONTRACTOR INC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE IN Farms Inc 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE BVLS 137 FTE
NAT-TCR Standard Tool and Machine Company, dba Hall Industries Equipment Division 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Clayton Giles 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Dairy Transport-Bryan 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Roedel Partners of Manchester, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ARS Aleut Remediation, LLC (Summary) 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ovintiv USA Inc. - Uinta Office 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Coast Fruit Company Kent 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerber Construction, Inc. 137 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.