Burners, heating, manufacturing · Connecticut

Cowles Operating Company

North Haven, CT · ~123 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cowles Operating Company runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Burners, heating, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Cowles Operating Company: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Burners, heating, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cowles Operating Company safety composite

Cowles Operating Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.9

2020→2024

Cowles Operating Company injury rate improved

Cowles Operating Company's TCR fell 1.9 from 3.3 in 2020 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.3 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333414 · North Haven, CT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK P61
  • PHOTO Beckett Gas Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beckett Gas Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cowles Operating Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cowles Operating Company averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Burners, heating, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cowles Operating Company TCR series: 2020=3.3 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Cowles Operating Company falls in its industry

117 Burners, heating, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cowles Operating Company (123 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cowles Operating Company
Cowles Operating Company (123 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Cowles Operating Company has more employees than the Burners, heating, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2020 3.3 0.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333414 · CT · North Haven

117 Burners, heating, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 95 employers in North Haven, CT · 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 Beckett Gas Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hearth n Home Technologies 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PVI Industries LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fulton Heating Solutions - Running Ridge Rd 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE 100610 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Guilford 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE STOP & SHOP 100611 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BDL3 4,773 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BDL3 4,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR CT-01 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medtonic 2,818 FTE
NAT-TCR American Concrete Products 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR College View Manor 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Thorwald Holdings 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Leprino Foods Roswell 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Associated Feed & Supply 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Linzer Metter 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE NABCO Entrances 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Somerset Ridge Center 123 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.