Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling · Vermont

Cota & Cota INC

Bellows Falls, VT · ~104 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cota & Cota INC runs at 240% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade F.

Cota & Cota INC: 8.2 TCR = 240% of Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cota & Cota INC safety composite

Cota & Cota INC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

−4.0

2018→2024

Cota & Cota INC injury rate improved

Cota & Cota INC's TCR fell 4.0 from 9.7 in 2018 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.7 · 2019=11.2 · 2020=10.0 · 2021=6.0 · 2022=8.0 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Bellows Falls, VT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 240% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO SUPERIOR PLUS - 0105
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SUPERIOR PLUS - 0105 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cota & Cota INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cota & Cota INC averages 8.2 TCR (240% of the Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

Cota & Cota INC TCR series: 2018=9.7 · 2019=11.2 · 2020=10 · 2021=6 · 2022=8 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Cota & Cota INC falls in its industry

366 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) deale establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) deale employers in Vermont.

Cota & Cota INC (104 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 020406080100120 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cota & Cota INC
Cota & Cota INC (104 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Cota & Cota INC has more employees than the Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2024 5.6 5.6 6 0 0
2023 6.5 5.6 6 1 0
2022 8.0 6.0 8 0 0
2021 6.0 4.0 6 0 0
2020 10.0 3.0 10 0 0
2019 11.2 4.1 11 0 0
2018 9.7 4.8 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · VT · Bellows Falls

366 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 3 employers in Bellows Falls, 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 SUPERIOR PLUS - 0105 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shaffer's Bottled Gas, Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perillo 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8600-DRC-BRATTLEBORO 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE PV000 - Corporate Office - Springfield 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE 08426 - Store # 8426 Bradford 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. -Camelot, A-Street, BEC West 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc. 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sonnax 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chroma Technology 131 FTE
NAT-TCR AZC001 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR TXA020 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR SC Voc Rehab Orangeburg 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1280 LKQ PYP Ontario 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Superior Asphalt, Inc. 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landmark Nursing and Rehab 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flash Plastering, Inc. 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piqua Operations 104 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.