Plumbing and heating contractors · Alabama

Freedom Heating and Cooling

Birmingham, AL · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freedom Heating and Cooling runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Freedom Heating and Cooling: 4.4 TCR = 158% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freedom Heating and Cooling safety composite

Freedom Heating and Cooling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Freedom Heating and Cooling held a steady TCR band

Freedom Heating and Cooling's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.4 in 2021 to 4.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.4 · 2022=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 158% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #67/85
  • PHOTO W. A. Soefker & Son,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freedom Heating and Cooling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freedom Heating and Cooling averages 4.4 TCR (158% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Freedom Heating and Cooling TCR series: 2021=4.4 · 2022=4.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Freedom Heating and Cooling falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 85 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Alabama.

Freedom Heating and Cooling (48 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Freedom Heating and Cooling
Freedom Heating and Cooling (48 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Freedom Heating and Cooling has fewer employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors 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
2022 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2021 4.4 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · AL · Birmingham

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 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 W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR George D. Boyer & Sons, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mielke Medina 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coolsys SAN 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elkmont GP Egg Depot 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Division Auburn Office 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE C & I Enclousres 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOHNSONKREIS Construction 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR Best Line Equipment - Towanda 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sauk Prairie Healthcare - Lodi Clinic 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Case Makes 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Humanscale-Piscataway 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kidzlodge Early Learning Center 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG591 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACCO Brands - Ontario 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG378 48 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.