Heating and cooling duct work installation · Ohio

Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric

Lima, OH · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Heating and cooling duct work installation workplace, earning a grade C.

Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric: 3.0 TCR = 107% of Heating and cooling duct work installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric safety composite

Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Lima, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 107% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #165/300
  • PHOTO Tao Mechanical LTD
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tao Mechanical LTD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric averages 3.0 TCR (107% of the Heating and cooling duct work installation BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=6 · BLS 2.8

Where Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric falls in its industry

5,793 Heating and cooling duct work establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #165 safest of 300 Heating and cooling duct work employers in Ohio.

Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric (35 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric
Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric (35 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Browns Heating Cooling Plumbing & Electric has fewer employees than the Heating and cooling duct work installati 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 6.0 6.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · OH · Lima

5,793 Heating and cooling duct work installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 243 employers in Lima, OH · 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 Tao Mechanical LTD 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peterson Mechanical Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harry Caswell, INC. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smith Mechanical, Inc. 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Community EMS - Mansfield 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Home City Ice Company Columbus 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE MLS-REY - TS Tech OH 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-Ohio Tubing, LLC - Butler 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health St Ritas Medical Center 2,540 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Rita's Medical Center 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Ritas Medical Center 2,445 FTE
CITY-NEAR LIMA ENGINE 1,457 FTE
NAT-TCR WellSpan Pharmacy 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntley Brothers Co. Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Public Safety (21) 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NS Radiology at Glen Cove 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Law Enforcement - District 1 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE DeBauche Truck & Diesel, Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ridge Recyclers Incorporated 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Connersville Utilities 35 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.