Plumbing and heating contractors · Colorado

Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd.

Colorado Springs, CO · ~79 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd. runs at 337% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd.: 9.4 TCR = 337% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd. safety composite

Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.9

2016→2020

Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd. injury rate improved

Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd.'s TCR fell 9.9 from 9.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 17.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.9 · 2017=17.1 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=14.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Colorado Springs, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 337% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #127/156
  • PHOTO Comfort First Heatin…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Comfort First Heating & Cooling LLC., Sanford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd. averages 9.4 TCR (337% 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

Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd. TCR series: 2016=9.9 · 2017=17.1 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=14 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd. falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #127 safest of 156 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Colorado.

Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd. (79 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd.
Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd. (79 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Commercial Design Engineering, Ltd. has more 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 14.0 4.0 7 0 0
2018 6.2 0.0 5 0 0
2017 17.1 3.8 9 0 0
2016 9.9 6.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CO · Colorado Springs

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 832 employers in Colorado Springs, CO · 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 Comfort First Heating & Cooling LLC., Sanford 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Falcon Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR New York Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Corp. 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR McLoughlin Plumbing, Heating & Cooling 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE William Lyon Homes, Inc. - CO Division 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colorado Office 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Three Brothers Concrete INC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Slaton Brothers Inc, 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Colorado Hospital Memorial Central 3,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN4 2,948 FTE
CITY-NEAR Penrose Hospital 2,841 FTE
CITY-NEAR 05070001-050701 PENROSE HOSPITAL 2,391 FTE
NAT-TCR Brandon Woods of Dartmouth 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CA173 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint John Paul II Center 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Braintree at Framingham 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marinemax East, Inc.-Ft 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foley Products Company Newnan, GA 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ivy Acres - NJ 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE R.V. Stich Construction, Inc. 79 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: 2020, 2019, 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.