Plumbing and heating inline valves (e.g., check, cutoffs, stop) manufacturing · Connecticut

C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries

North Haven, CT · ~123 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plumbing and heating inline valves (e.g., check, cutoffs, stop) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries: 3.0 TCR = 90% of Plumbing and heating inline valves (e.g., check, cutoffs, stop) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries safety composite

C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries held a steady TCR band

C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.4 in 2021 to 2.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.4 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332919 · North Haven, CT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK P44
  • PHOTO Watts Water Technolo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Watts Water Technologies (0.0 TCR gap)

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C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the Plumbing and heating inline valves (e.g., check, cutoffs, stop) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries TCR series: 2021=2.4 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries falls in its industry

100 Plumbing and heating inline va establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries (123 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries
C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries (123 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 2.8

C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries has more employees than the Plumbing and heating inline valves (e.g. median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 2.7 0.9 3 0 0
2022 3.9 1.6 3 2 0
2021 2.4 1.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332919 · CT · North Haven

100 Plumbing and heating inline valves (e.g., check, cutoffs, stop) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 95 employers in North Haven, CT · 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 Watts Water Technologies 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DERBYSHIRE MACHINE & TOOL 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydrasearch, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dresser Natural Gas Solutions 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE COWLES OPERATING COMPANY 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE 100610 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Guilford 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE STOP & SHOP 100611 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BDL3 4,773 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BDL3 4,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR CT-01 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medtonic 2,818 FTE
NAT-TCR Barron Motor Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brandywine Mifflin Transportation LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus GA Dirt Cheap 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard Boston Cambridge 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Myer Marine Services 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Panama City Beach Research & Development Facility 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4223-M1000 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Longview Operations 123 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.