Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors · Indiana

Bright Sheet Metal

Indianapolis, IN · ~264 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bright Sheet Metal runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Bright Sheet Metal: 2.7 TCR = 96% of Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bright Sheet Metal safety composite

Bright Sheet Metal scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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)
C 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Bright Sheet Metal: 1.6 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2023

Bright Sheet Metal's TCR rose 3.2 from 1.6 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Indianapolis, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 96% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #57/130
  • PHOTO Ultra Services, Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~264 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ultra Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bright Sheet Metal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bright Sheet Metal averages 2.7 TCR (96% of the Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Bright Sheet Metal TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=1.9 · 2021=3.2 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Bright Sheet Metal falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Con establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 130 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Con employers in Indiana.

Bright Sheet Metal (264 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 0100200300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bright Sheet Metal
Bright Sheet Metal (264 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Bright Sheet Metal has more employees than the Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning 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
2023 4.8 2.9 13 0 0
2021 3.2 0.5 7 0 0
2019 1.9 0.8 5 0 0
2018 2.4 1.2 6 0 0
2017 2.3 1.5 6 0 0
2016 1.6 0.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IN · Indianapolis

5,793 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 2,074 employers in Indianapolis, IN · 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 Ultra Services, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henry Plumbing Company Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fletcher's Plumbing & Contracting, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0F77 - DALLAS FIRE 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 227 LCI 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Digger Specialties, Inc 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE 024-00776 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE RSCG - Plainfield Warehouse 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana University Health, Inc 7,874 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eli Lilly - Lilly Corp Center 6,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lilly Technology Center 6,472 FTE
NAT-TCR Villas of Holly Brook - Savoy 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Busch's Inc 1043 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia Chemical Corp 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aquatic Co. Elizabethtown 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omni PGA Frisco Resort 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE HHS Construction, LLC 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC. - 059 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE PNB Tumwater WA 264 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, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.