Commercial refrigeration system installation · Ohio

E B Katz Inc

Cleveland, OH · ~18 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

E B Katz Inc runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial refrigeration system installation workplace, earning a grade D.

E B Katz Inc: 3.8 TCR = 137% of Commercial refrigeration system installation BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

E B Katz Inc safety composite

E B Katz Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

E B Katz Inc: 0.0 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

E B Katz Inc's TCR rose 15.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 15.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 137% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #199/300
  • PHOTO Northwest Plumbing, …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northwest Plumbing, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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E B Katz Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows E B Katz Inc averages 3.8 TCR (137% of the Commercial refrigeration system installation BLS benchmark).

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

E B Katz Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.5 · 2018=6.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=15.7 · BLS 2.8

Where E B Katz Inc falls in its industry

5,793 Commercial refrigeration syste establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #199 safest of 300 Commercial refrigeration syste employers in Ohio.

E B Katz Inc (18 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 E B Katz Inc
E B Katz Inc (18 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

E B Katz Inc has fewer employees than the Commercial refrigeration system installa 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 15.7 0.0 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.7 3.4 2 0 0
2017 4.5 0.0 0 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · OH · Cleveland

5,793 Commercial refrigeration system installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Northwest Plumbing, INC. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelly Sheet Metal 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASSOCIATED MECHANICAL CONTRACTORSW, INC. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Mechanical Services, Inc. 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buckeye Oil Producing Company 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holmes Supply Corp 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vixcon Co LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sapphire Steel 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR Woodinville - BMD 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR San Francisco Premium Outlets 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Calzone Case Company 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MARSHALL 3.8 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, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017, 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.