HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors · Indiana

General Piping, Inc

Indianapolis, IN · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Piping, Inc runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

General Piping, Inc: 5.0 TCR = 179% of HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Piping, Inc safety composite

General Piping, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

General Piping, Inc: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2024

General Piping, Inc's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Indianapolis, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 179% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #88/130
  • PHOTO Empire HVAC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Empire HVAC (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Piping, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Piping, Inc averages 5.0 TCR (179% of the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

General Piping, Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=13.8 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.8

Where General Piping, Inc falls in its industry

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 130 HVAC (heating, ventilation and employers in Indiana.

General Piping, Inc (43 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 General Piping, Inc
General Piping, Inc (43 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

General Piping, Inc has fewer employees than the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-condi 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
2024 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2023 13.8 5.5 5 0 0
2022 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IN · Indianapolis

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 2,074 employers in Indianapolis, IN · 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 Empire HVAC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Waterworks, LLC dba-Atherton Plumbing 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Climate Pros Kansas City 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paige Mechanical Group, Inc. 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Fork Farms 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IN Hatchery 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred Int'l Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kosciusko REMC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana University Health, Inc 7,874 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eli Lilly - Lilly Corp Center 6,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lilly Technology Center 6,472 FTE
NAT-TCR 3272 - Rogers Park 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tlm One 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 9021 - Potomac Run Plaza 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Grede Wisconsin Subsidiaries LLC Browntown 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Komo Machine Inc 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tobey's Construction & Cartage 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Pacific Fence LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Attic Breeze LLC 43 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 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.