Air-conditioning system (except window) installation · California

Esser Air Conditioning and Heating

Cathedral City, CA · ~19 workers · 4 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

Esser Air Conditioning and Heating runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Air-conditioning system (except window) installation workplace, earning a grade D.

Esser Air Conditioning and Heating: 4.6 TCR = 164% of Air-conditioning system (except window) installation BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Esser Air Conditioning and Heating safety composite

Esser Air Conditioning and Heating scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Esser Air Conditioning and Heating: 6.6 → 134.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 134.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Esser Air Conditioning and Heating's TCR rose 127.8 from 6.6 in 2017 to 134.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Cathedral City, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 164% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #344/594
  • PHOTO SILCO FIRE & SECURIT…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - DAYTON (0.0 TCR gap)

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Esser Air Conditioning and Heating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Esser Air Conditioning and Heating averages 4.6 TCR (164% of the Air-conditioning system (except window) installation BLS benchmark).

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

Esser Air Conditioning and Heating TCR series: 2017=6.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=134.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Esser Air Conditioning and Heating falls in its industry

5,793 Air-conditioning system (excep establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #344 safest of 594 Air-conditioning system (excep employers in California.

Esser Air Conditioning and Heating (19 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 Esser Air Conditioning and Heating
Esser Air Conditioning and Heating (19 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Esser Air Conditioning and Heating has fewer employees than the Air-conditioning system (except window) 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
2020 134.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 7.2 7.2 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.6 6.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Cathedral City

5,793 Air-conditioning system (except window) installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 28 employers in Cathedral City, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - DAYTON 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guy M Cooper, Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kemco 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross & Sons Refrigeration & Construction 4.6 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 CITY OF CATHEDRAL CITY 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Canyon Springs Facility, Department of Developmental Services 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0307 - Palm Springs 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salim Logistics 121 FTE
NAT-TCR Kieffs Roofing 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mustang Motorcycle Products 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DCB Bremen 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CT011 4.6 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.