HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors · California

Blair Heating & Air

Palm Springs, CA · ~46 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blair Heating & Air runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Blair Heating & Air: 4.6 TCR = 163% of HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blair Heating & Air safety composite

Blair Heating & Air scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Blair Heating & Air: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2019

Blair Heating & Air's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Palm Springs, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 163% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #342/594
  • PHOTO Mechanical Systems C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mechanical Systems Company, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blair Heating & Air in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blair Heating & Air averages 4.6 TCR (163% of the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Blair Heating & Air TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=4.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Blair Heating & Air falls in its industry

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and 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 #342 safest of 594 HVAC (heating, ventilation and employers in California.

Blair Heating & Air (46 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Blair Heating & Air
Blair Heating & Air (46 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Blair Heating & Air has fewer employees than the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-condi 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
2019 4.8 3.2 3 0 0
2018 8.9 5.9 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Palm Springs

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 114 employers in Palm Springs, 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 Mechanical Systems Company, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Z B Z & Associates, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The AC Guys 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howard Kane Plumbing Company 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matteoli Brothers 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE IMR Farms-San Miguel 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Berry Farms 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitigliano Farm Services, Inc. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Desert Regional Medical Center 2,585 FTE
CITY-NEAR 694 DESERT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-694 2,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Palm Springs 459 FTE
NAT-TCR FedEx Supply Chain - Khls Pataskala 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Sarah Community 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Northeastern 3 and 4 Plant 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MIL 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hartland Fuel Products 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Co 820 Maines Food & Party Warehouse 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rayloc 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emmi Roth USA- Dist. Center 46 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: 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.