Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors · North Carolina

Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc.

Durham, NC · ~115 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc.: 4.0 TCR = 143% of Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. safety composite

Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−6.0

2016→2018

Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. injury rate improved

Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc.'s TCR fell 6.0 from 7.8 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Durham, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 143% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #135/212
  • PHOTO Climate Control
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Climate Control (0.0 TCR gap)

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Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. averages 4.0 TCR (143% of the Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=1.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-c establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #135 safest of 212 Heating, ventilation and air-c employers in North Carolina.

Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. (115 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc.
Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. (115 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. has more employees than the Heating, ventilation and air-conditionin 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
2018 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2017 2.3 2.3 3 0 0
2016 7.8 3.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · NC · Durham

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, NC · 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 Climate Control 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson Heating and Cooling 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WFS JACKSONVILLE 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Set Duct Manufacturing 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Electric Membership Corp. Supply District 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE County of Harnett-Harnett Regional Water 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heavy Highway 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE L M Mclamb & Son Construction Co Inc 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR Roswell Bookbinding 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN) 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ShoreCare 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Imagine Print Solutions 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Installation Professionals 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evonik jayhawk fine chemicals corp. 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Microboard Processing, Inc. 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Murphy Electric Inc 115 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.