Central air-conditioning equipment installation · Nebraska

Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc.

Gering, NE · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. runs at 590% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Central air-conditioning equipment installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc.: 16.5 TCR = 590% of Central air-conditioning equipment installation BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. safety composite

Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc.: 12.1 → 21.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 21.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc.'s TCR rose 9.4 from 12.1 in 2022 to 21.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Gering, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.5 · 590% of ind

  • DART 17.2 DART
  • RANK #49/49
  • PHOTO FREEDOM HEATING & PL…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FREEDOM HEATING & PLUMBING, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. averages 16.5 TCR (590% of the Central air-conditioning equipment installation BLS benchmark).

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

Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. TCR series: 2022=12.1 · 2023=16 · 2024=21.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Central air-conditioning equip establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 49 Central air-conditioning equip employers in Nebraska.

Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 16.5) 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 Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc.
Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 16.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. has fewer employees than the Central air-conditioning equipment insta 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 21.5 17.2 5 0 0
2023 16.0 16.0 3 1 0
2022 12.1 4.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · NE · Gering

5,793 Central air-conditioning equipment installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 12 employers in Gering, NE · 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 FREEDOM HEATING & PLUMBING, INC. 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adam Mechanical 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Neese Heating & Air Conditioning Inc. 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GHPA, LLC D/B/A Patrick Riley 16.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pillen Family Farms Mill 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilderness View 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Country View 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridge View 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heritage Estates 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paul Reed Construction & Supply, Inc. 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR CS Precision Manufacturing 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR B&C Steel Corporation 54 FTE
NAT-TCR Oksti - Stillwater 16.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lax -1100 16.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gary Ingram Grading & Paving, Inc 16.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Meridian Waste Missouri, LLC 16.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Randolph 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Absolute Skilled Home Health, Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milwaukee 10547 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laredo 10287 29 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.