Plumbing and heating contractors · Ohio

Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc.

Newark, OH · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc.: 4.6 TCR = 166% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. safety composite

Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−5.9

2019→2021

Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. injury rate improved

Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.9 from 8.1 in 2019 to 2.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.1 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Newark, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 166% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #225/300
  • PHOTO Klebs Mechanical Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Klebs Mechanical Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. averages 4.6 TCR (166% 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

Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. TCR series: 2019=8.1 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=2.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #225 safest of 300 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Ohio.

Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. (51 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc.
Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. (51 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, 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
2021 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2020 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2019 8.1 4.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · OH · Newark

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 76 employers in Newark, OH · 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 Klebs Mechanical Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Express Plumbing Heating & Air 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lane Associates 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Airtron Mid-Atlantic 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Portsmouth Service Center 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Gas & Oil 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE 922-NiSource-Zanesville OH-Muskingum Op Ctr 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE GEM Industrial Inc. - Potash PCS 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Licking Memorial Hospital 1,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consumer Support Services 1,421 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owens Corning Neark Insulation Plant 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owens Corning 492 FTE
NAT-TCR Dept. of Health & Social Services (12) 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AWS- Santa Clara County 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Panama Transfer Des Moines 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - Mt. Vernon 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn & Suites Charleston West 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Health & Social Services (45) 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE ZFS Creston, LLC 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roadrunner Transportation Services - Seattle 51 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.