Plumbing and heating contractors · Pennsylvania

Chop Various

Philadelphia, PA · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chop Various runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Chop Various: 3.8 TCR = 134% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chop Various safety composite

Chop Various scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2019→2022

Chop Various injury rate improved

Chop Various's TCR fell 1.2 from 5.8 in 2019 to 4.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Philadelphia, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 134% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #130/268
  • PHOTO Jack L Woods Plumbin…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jack L Woods Plumbing Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chop Various in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chop Various averages 3.8 TCR (134% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Chop Various TCR series: 2019=5.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=4.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Chop Various falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #130 safest of 268 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Pennsylvania.

Chop Various (40 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Chop Various
Chop Various (40 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Chop Various has fewer employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors 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
2022 4.6 2.3 2 0 0
2021 4.5 3.0 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.8 5.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · PA · Philadelphia

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,431 employers in Philadelphia, PA · 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 Jack L Woods Plumbing Co Inc 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Ray Heating, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perfection Group, Inc., Cincinnati 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thornley's Service Inc. 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CNB Mushroom, LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASA Mushroom LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Conard-Pyle Co. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Greenhouses, LLC -PA 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR FIVE BELOW INC 19,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital of University of Pennsylvania 13,423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Hospital 9,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Campus 9,129 FTE
NAT-TCR HDS-Muncie 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vintage 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR HG228 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Monroe Place 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Palm Bay FL Yard 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crestwood Crude Terminals LLC-Colt Hub 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brown Trucking Company Richmond, VA 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE plainville plating company, inc. 40 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: 2022, 2021, 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.