Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors · Oregon

Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc

Bend, OR · ~64 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc: 5.5 TCR = 197% of Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc safety composite

Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.94 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

Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc: 1.7 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2023

Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc's TCR rose 5.7 from 1.7 in 2019 to 7.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Bend, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 197% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #52/86
  • PHOTO a.d. winston Corp
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: a.d. winston Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc averages 5.5 TCR (197% 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

Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc TCR series: 2019=1.7 · 2020=10 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=7.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc falls in its industry

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

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 86 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Con employers in Oregon.

Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc (64 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc
Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc (64 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Cascade Heating and Specialties Inc has more employees than the Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning 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
2023 7.3 2.9 5 0 0
2022 3.1 1.6 4 0 0
2020 10.0 4.0 5 0 0
2019 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · OR · Bend

5,793 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 254 employers in Bend, OR · 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 a.d. winston Corp 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Colorado Energy Solutions, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TAM 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wells Fargo Center 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cutting Edge Forestry Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE McMinnville Water & Light 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoffman Corporation 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silver Creek Contracting LLC 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Charles Health System Bend 3,592 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mt. Bachelor 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Charles Health System Redmond 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lonza Bend Inc, 438 FTE
NAT-TCR Land N' Sea - Lake Suzy 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AWPI-Petersburg 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Douglass Colony Group Greeley 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR BY 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ari Industries, Inc 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pregis- Pomona 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE NC- High Point 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skywater 64 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.