HVAC Plumbing · Iowa

CW Suter

Sioux City, IA · ~148 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CW Suter runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical HVAC Plumbing workplace, earning a grade D.

CW Suter: 4.1 TCR = 148% of HVAC Plumbing BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CW Suter safety composite

CW Suter 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.25 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%).

Rising injury rate

CW Suter: 0.9 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

CW Suter's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.9 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Sioux City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 148% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #56/94
  • PHOTO A/C Technical Servic…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: A/C Technical Services, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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CW Suter in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CW Suter averages 4.1 TCR (148% of the HVAC Plumbing BLS benchmark).

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

CW Suter TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2018=5 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=2.6 · 2023=3 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 2.8

Where CW Suter falls in its industry

5,793 HVAC Plumbing establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 94 HVAC Plumbing employers in Iowa.

CW Suter (148 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 CW Suter
CW Suter (148 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

CW Suter has more employees than the HVAC Plumbing 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
2024 5.1 3.3 11 0 0
2023 3.0 1.5 6 0 0
2021 2.6 1.9 4 0 0
2020 3.8 1.9 6 0 0
2019 8.5 6.2 11 0 0
2018 5.0 1.6 6 0 0
2016 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IA · Sioux City

5,793 HVAC Plumbing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, IA · 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 A/C Technical Services, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Malone's Mechanical Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Proteus, Inc. Visalia Service Center 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stouffer Mechanical Contractor 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cone 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rock Communications LLC 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Madison Plant 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Uniparts Olsen, Inc. 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Telemarketing 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nicholson Manufacturing Company 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR LJB 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR John H. Baker, Jr., Public Safety Center 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sterling 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rick Case Hyundai (Davie) 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE East River Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giaquinto Masonry 148 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.