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

BT Buffalo Grove

Buffalo Grove, IL · ~760 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BT Buffalo Grove runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

BT Buffalo Grove: 1.0 TCR = 36% of HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BT Buffalo Grove safety composite

BT Buffalo Grove scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

BT Buffalo Grove: 0.9 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2018

BT Buffalo Grove's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.9 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Buffalo Grove, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 36% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #54/230
  • PHOTO Starcon @ Ingredion …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~760 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Starcon @ Ingredion Bedford Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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BT Buffalo Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BT Buffalo Grove averages 1.0 TCR (36% 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

BT Buffalo Grove TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=0.4 · 2018=1.7 · BLS 2.8

Where BT Buffalo Grove falls in its industry

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 230 HVAC (heating, ventilation and employers in Illinois.

BT Buffalo Grove (760 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate BT Buffalo Grove
BT Buffalo Grove (760 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

BT Buffalo Grove has more employees than the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-condi 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
2018 1.7 0.9 12 0 0
2017 0.4 0.0 3 0 0
2016 0.9 0.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IL · Buffalo Grove

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Buffalo Grove, IL · 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 Starcon @ Ingredion Bedford Park 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Murphy Company (Missouri) 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR G.E. Mechanical, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.A. Comunale - Cleveland 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE NORTHBROOK (ILNOR) 760 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Margaret's Health 760 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRW Automotive-Marshall 761 FTE
STATE-SIZE Presence St. Joseph Hospital Elgin 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Building Services, Inc. 2,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex - Buffalo Grove 1,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plexus Corp 556 FTE
NAT-TCR Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope Indianapolis 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Starcraft Interior Contractors Ltd 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Little Knife Field 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Paloma Packing Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maple Grove (Mnmpl) 760 FTE
NAT-SIZE MD0288CB2 760 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harbor Freight Tools Corporate Calabasas 760 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gaston College 760 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.