Water softener installation · Montana

Culligan - Billings

Laurel, MT · ~19 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Culligan - Billings runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water softener installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Culligan - Billings: 6.1 TCR = 219% of Water softener installation BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Culligan - Billings safety composite

Culligan - Billings scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Culligan - Billings: 0.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 21.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2023

Culligan - Billings's TCR rose 4.4 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Laurel, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 219% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #10/20
  • PHOTO Garrett Plumbing & H…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garrett Plumbing & Heating Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Culligan - Billings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Culligan - Billings averages 6.1 TCR (219% of the Water softener installation BLS benchmark).

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

Culligan - Billings TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=11.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=21 · 2023=4.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Culligan - Billings falls in its industry

5,793 Water softener installation establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 20 Water softener installation employers in Montana.

Culligan - Billings (19 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Culligan - Billings
Culligan - Billings (19 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Culligan - Billings has fewer employees than the Water softener installation 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 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2022 21.0 21.0 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 11.5 5.8 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · MT · Laurel

5,793 Water softener installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 16 employers in Laurel, MT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Garrett Plumbing & Heating Co. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PATTERSON HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Webb Plumbing, Heating & Electric Corp 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alliance Fire Protection LLC 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Belgrade, MT 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE BEARTOOTH ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE FXSolutions 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE L & J Construction Group, LLC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Laurel Refinery 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHS Laurel Refinery 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4412 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4412 283 FTE
NAT-TCR Southeast Child & Family Therapy 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakehaven Water and Sewer District 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cornersburg Sparkle 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Boyne Mountain Resort 6.1 TCR

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, 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.