Air system balancing and testing · Vermont

Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc.

Colchester, VT · ~67 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
30.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc. runs at 1100% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air system balancing and testing workplace, earning a grade F.

Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc.: 30.8 TCR = 1100% of Air system balancing and testing BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc. safety composite

Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 30.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc.: 26.2 → 38.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 38.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2023

Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc.'s TCR rose 12.4 from 26.2 in 2017 to 38.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Colchester, VT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 30.8 · 1100% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Radiant Plumbing and…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Radiant Plumbing and Air Conditioning (1.0 TCR gap)

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Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc. averages 30.8 TCR (1100% of the Air system balancing and testing BLS benchmark).

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

Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc. TCR series: 2017=26.2 · 2022=27.6 · 2023=38.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Air system balancing and testi establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Air system balancing and testi employers in Vermont.

Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc. (67 employees, TCR 30.8) 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc.
Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc. (67 employees, TCR 30.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Chuck's Heating & A/C, Inc. has more employees than the Air system balancing and testing 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 38.6 10.3 15 0 0
2022 27.6 6.9 11 1 0
2017 26.2 2.2 9 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · VT · Colchester

5,793 Air system balancing and testing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 31 employers in Colchester, VT · 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 Radiant Plumbing and Air Conditioning 29.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pro-Tec Refrigeration LLC 29.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Astar 29.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Jay 28.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Windsor Brewing Company 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Citizen Cider 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caledonia Spirits 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE ST. JOHNSBURY (VTSJO) 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Green Mountain Electric Supply, INC. 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0314 - COLCHESTER VT WHSE 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADA Traffic Control, ltd 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Janitech Services , LLC 172 FTE
NAT-TCR 048 Juvenile Detention Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockland Facility 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kemper Moving Systems 30.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gregory Poole Equipment Company- Fayetteville 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rockwell Automation- East Setauket NY (LON) 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Harrison 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winfield Senior Living Community 67 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, 2017. 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.