Plumbing and heating contractors · Illinois

FLS Plumbing

Chicago, IL · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FLS Plumbing runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

FLS Plumbing: 0.8 TCR = 29% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FLS Plumbing safety composite

FLS Plumbing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

FLS Plumbing: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

FLS Plumbing's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 29% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #39/230
  • PHOTO University Mechanica…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: University Mechanical & Engineering Contractors (0.0 TCR gap)

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FLS Plumbing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FLS Plumbing averages 0.8 TCR (29% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

FLS Plumbing TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.6 · BLS 2.8

Where FLS Plumbing falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 230 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Illinois.

FLS Plumbing (49 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 FLS Plumbing
FLS Plumbing (49 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

FLS Plumbing has fewer employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors median and a lower 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
2017 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IL · Chicago

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 University Mechanical & Engineering Contractors 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pan-Pacific Mechanical 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 95 Factory Road 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Airport Trade Center 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Anthem Tinley Park Management, LLC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beecher Fire Protection District 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paxton Packing LLC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE RK-598-Trucking ( RK-598 ) 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Cranial Technologies Corporate & Manufacturing 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR HBSHSEFL70 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Physician Business Services 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Koppers Clairton 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE AAA Worldwide Transportation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Elk Rapids 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE AKA Tree Removal 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Mansfield LLC 49 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: 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.