Commercial refrigeration system installation · West Virginia

Charleston

Charleston, WV · ~62 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charleston runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial refrigeration system installation workplace, earning a grade C.

Charleston: 2.5 TCR = 91% of Commercial refrigeration system installation BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charleston safety composite

Charleston scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Charleston: 0.0 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Charleston's TCR rose 11.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Charleston, WV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 91% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/20
  • PHOTO Green Mechanical Con…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Green Mechanical Construction, Inc - Lexington (0.0 TCR gap)

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Charleston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charleston averages 2.5 TCR (91% of the Commercial refrigeration system installation BLS benchmark).

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

Charleston TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=11.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Charleston falls in its industry

5,793 Commercial refrigeration syste establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 20 Commercial refrigeration syste employers in West Virginia.

Charleston (62 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Charleston
Charleston (62 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Charleston has more employees than the Commercial refrigeration system installa 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 11.7 0.0 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · WV · Charleston

5,793 Commercial refrigeration system installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 158 employers in Charleston, WV · 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 Green Mechanical Construction, Inc - Lexington 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olympia Plumbing Corp 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thermostat Aquisition Holdings, LP 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR WFS TAMPA 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Solar Holler LLC 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Polymer Alliance Services LLC 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highland Industries 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE WV - Beckley - 4419 Robert C. Byrd Dr - The American Bottling Company 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAMC Memorial Hospital 3,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAMC Memorial Division 3,374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital 3,232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston Area Medical Center General Division 1,990 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilkes Plant 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Groendyke Transport - Panama 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Engineered Materials : Goshen 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Seneca 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walinga USA Inc 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE 104054 - Omaha Riverfront 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5250 Central 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Casting Solutions - primary facility 62 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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