Air-conditioning and warm air heating combination units manufacturing · Texas

First Co. DCEX

Mesquite, TX · ~243 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Co. DCEX runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Air-conditioning and warm air heating combination units manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

First Co. DCEX: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Air-conditioning and warm air heating combination units manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Co. DCEX safety composite

First Co. DCEX scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.1

2022→2023

First Co. DCEX injury rate improved

First Co. DCEX's TCR fell 1.1 from 3.0 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.0 · 2023=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333415 · Mesquite, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #27/52
  • PHOTO Construction
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~243 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Co. DCEX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Co. DCEX averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Air-conditioning and warm air heating combination units manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

First Co. DCEX TCR series: 2022=3 · 2023=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where First Co. DCEX falls in its industry

461 Air-conditioning and warm air establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 52 Air-conditioning and warm air employers in Texas.

First Co. DCEX (243 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 164 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate First Co. DCEX
First Co. DCEX (243 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 164 employees and a TCR of 2.8

First Co. DCEX has more employees than the Air-conditioning and warm air heating co median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2023 1.9 1.9 5 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333415 · TX · Mesquite

461 Air-conditioning and warm air heating combination units manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 166 employers in Mesquite, TX · 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 Construction 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Master-Bilt Products LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Munters Selma 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlyle Compressor Remanufacturing 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE TETRA Technologies, Inc. - Corporate Office 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland/Wicket 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Conquest Completion Services LLC 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worley Field Services at ExxonMobil BCEP Project 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR MESQUITE (TXMES) 2,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR TXMES - MESQUITE 2,481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Canadian Solar US Module Manufacturing 883 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZMES 874 FTE
NAT-TCR Stanfordville Machine & Mfg., Co., Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Thorne Associates, Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Triangle Services - Boston (BOS) Aviation Svcs 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Southland Truck Group, LLC - Carencro 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sole Transport L.C. 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rdu - Dhl 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ordes - Deschutes 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-States Aluminum 243 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: 2023, 2022. 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.