Blower or fan, cooling and dry heating, installation · Tennessee

Fruetel Associates

Nashville, TN · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fruetel Associates runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Blower or fan, cooling and dry heating, installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Fruetel Associates: 7.4 TCR = 265% of Blower or fan, cooling and dry heating, installation BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fruetel Associates safety composite

Fruetel Associates scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

TCR Δ

−293.3

2016→2018

Fruetel Associates injury rate improved

Fruetel Associates's TCR fell 293.3 from 300.0 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 300.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=300.0 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=6.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Nashville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 265% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #108/117
  • PHOTO Assurance Heating an…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Assurance Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fruetel Associates in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fruetel Associates averages 7.4 TCR (265% of the Blower or fan, cooling and dry heating, installation BLS benchmark).

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

Fruetel Associates TCR series: 2016=300 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=6.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Fruetel Associates falls in its industry

5,793 Blower or fan, cooling and dry establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #108 safest of 117 Blower or fan, cooling and dry employers in Tennessee.

Fruetel Associates (53 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 Fruetel Associates
Fruetel Associates (53 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Fruetel Associates has fewer employees than the Blower or fan, cooling and dry heating, 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
2018 6.8 5.1 4 0 0
2017 8.1 0.0 4 0 0
2016 300.0 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · TN · Nashville

5,793 Blower or fan, cooling and dry heating, installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, TN · 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 Assurance Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montour Solar 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RRSC Menlo Park 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker Brothers LLC 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Humboldt Utilities 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE SWEETWATER UTILITIES 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Savannah Office 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE GCC Construction 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parallon Enterprises, LLC 15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY 10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Commerical Waste Disposal 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ngl Water Solutions, LLC-Orla 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dean Dairy - Sharpsville - DTI 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Univ of Mt Union T & B Express(Can)** 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Office 71 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masco Coatings Group St. Louis MFG 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pride of the Hills Mfg. of Wooster LLC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canton Dns 53 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.