Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors · Georgia

Empire HVAC

Decatur, GA · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire HVAC runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Empire HVAC: 5.0 TCR = 179% of Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire HVAC safety composite

Empire HVAC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Empire HVAC: 0.0 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Empire HVAC's TCR rose 10.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 10.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Decatur, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 179% of ind

  • DART 10.0 DART
  • RANK #90/123
  • PHOTO General Piping, Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Piping, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire HVAC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire HVAC averages 5.0 TCR (179% of the Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Empire HVAC TCR series: 2019=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=10 · 2024=10 · BLS 2.8

Where Empire HVAC falls in its industry

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-c establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #90 safest of 123 Heating, ventilation and air-c employers in Georgia.

Empire HVAC (20 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Empire HVAC
Empire HVAC (20 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Empire HVAC has fewer employees than the Heating, ventilation and air-conditionin 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 10.0 10.0 2 0 0
2023 10.0 10.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · GA · Decatur

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 109 employers in Decatur, GA · 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 General Piping, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Waterworks, LLC dba-Atherton Plumbing 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Climate Pros Kansas City 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paige Mechanical Group, Inc. 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cal-Maine foods St George 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lab 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE FUNSTON GIN 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pennington Seed - Seed Production Division (SPI) 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emory Decatur Hospital - EHC 2,953 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb Medical Center 2,462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Marshalls Distribution Center 1,151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marshalls Atlanta Merchants, Inc 1,131 FTE
NAT-TCR Thyssenkrupp Crankshaft LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mosaic Terre Haute 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Boulder Facility 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SCWA - Operations 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE DBH Sheet Metal Corp. dba Blake Sheet Metal 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snoqualmie Ridge Medical Clinic 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrison AR FXFE-HRO 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Little Rock Shop AR FXFE-LITS 20 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, 2022, 2019. 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.