Plumbing and heating contractors · California

DEGREE HVAC, Inc.

San Carlos, CA · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DEGREE HVAC, Inc. runs at 424% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

DEGREE HVAC, Inc.: 11.9 TCR = 424% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DEGREE HVAC, Inc. safety composite

DEGREE HVAC, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

DEGREE HVAC, Inc.: 11.7 → 12.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

DEGREE HVAC, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.4 from 11.7 in 2023 to 12.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · San Carlos, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 424% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #541/594
  • PHOTO ENE OF NH
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ENE OF NH (0.0 TCR gap)

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DEGREE HVAC, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DEGREE HVAC, Inc. averages 11.9 TCR (424% 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

DEGREE HVAC, Inc. TCR series: 2023=11.7 · 2024=12.1 · BLS 2.8

Where DEGREE HVAC, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #541 safest of 594 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in California.

DEGREE HVAC, Inc. (19 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 DEGREE HVAC, Inc.
DEGREE HVAC, Inc. (19 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

DEGREE HVAC, Inc. has fewer 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
2024 12.1 6.0 2 0 0
2023 11.7 11.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · San Carlos

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 57 employers in San Carlos, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR ENE OF NH 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ProSkill Services Inc. 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redmond Main Office 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR J.A. Sauer Co. 11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE A. OSEGUERA CO., INC. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEIXEIRA FARMS INC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden R, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEDRAZZI FARMS 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rudolph and Sletten 686 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Medical Foundation (30507) 534 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10145) 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR San Mateo County Transit District 293 FTE
NAT-TCR Thomson-Hood Veterans Center 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #253 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR National Frame Rail, Inc 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR S&S Structures, Inc. 11.9 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: 2024, 2023. 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.