Furnace, forced air, installation · Iowa

Fosters Heating & AC, Inc.

Marion, IA · ~27 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fosters Heating & AC, Inc. runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Furnace, forced air, installation workplace, earning a grade C.

Fosters Heating & AC, Inc.: 3.1 TCR = 113% of Furnace, forced air, installation BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fosters Heating & AC, Inc. safety composite

Fosters Heating & AC, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

Fosters Heating & AC, Inc.: 4.3 → 92.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 92.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Fosters Heating & AC, Inc.'s TCR rose 88.5 from 4.3 in 2016 to 92.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Marion, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 113% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #47/94
  • PHOTO Scranton Electric He…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Scranton Electric Heating & Cooling Service Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fosters Heating & AC, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fosters Heating & AC, Inc. averages 3.1 TCR (113% of the Furnace, forced air, installation BLS benchmark).

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

Fosters Heating & AC, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=8.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=92.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Fosters Heating & AC, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Furnace, forced air, installat establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 94 Furnace, forced air, installat employers in Iowa.

Fosters Heating & AC, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Fosters Heating & AC, Inc.
Fosters Heating & AC, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Fosters Heating & AC, Inc. has fewer employees than the Furnace, forced air, installation 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
2020 92.8 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.3 8.3 2 0 0
2016 4.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IA · Marion

5,793 Furnace, forced air, installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 59 employers in Marion, IA · 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 Scranton Electric Heating & Cooling Service Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMS of Denver, LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2857_5578 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0D47 - PHILADELPHIA FIRE 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2520-Storm Lake, IA (Monsanto Co.) 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wastewater Treatment Plant 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Construction Services, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Weitz Company - Mission Critical - Microsoft DSM 14 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3630 384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marion - Main Store 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3630 347 FTE
CITY-NEAR The ESCO Group 274 FTE
NAT-TCR Main Office 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vanlaan 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingsford Mfg Co 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 32 Oswell 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nashboro Village 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Equipment and Welding 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 008 Midway 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Memorial Park Recreation Center 27 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: 2020, 2019, 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.