Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors · New Jersey

Gold Medal - South

East Brunswick, NJ · ~121 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gold Medal - South runs at 541% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Gold Medal - South: 15.2 TCR = 541% of Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gold Medal - South safety composite

Gold Medal - South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Gold Medal - South held a steady TCR band

Gold Medal - South's TCR held near 0.2 from 15.3 in 2018 to 15.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 21.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=15.3 · 2019=10.2 · 2020=21.4 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=17.0 · 2023=14.2 · 2024=15.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · East Brunswick, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.2 · 541% of ind

  • DART 14.3 DART
  • RANK #82/84
  • PHOTO Gold Medal -NY
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 119 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gold Medal -NY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gold Medal - South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gold Medal - South averages 15.2 TCR (541% of the Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Gold Medal - South TCR series: 2018=15.3 · 2019=10.2 · 2020=21.4 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=17 · 2023=14.2 · 2024=15.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Gold Medal - South falls in its industry

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-c establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 84 Heating, ventilation and air-c employers in New Jersey.

Gold Medal - South (121 employees, TCR 15.2) 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 Gold Medal - South
Gold Medal - South (121 employees, TCR 15.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Gold Medal - South has more employees than the Heating, ventilation and air-conditionin 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 15.5 14.3 13 0 0
2023 14.2 12.9 10 1 0
2022 17.0 17.0 17 0 0
2021 12.6 11.6 12 1 0
2020 21.4 17.7 29 0 0
2019 10.2 8.9 16 0 0
2018 15.3 6.3 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · NJ · East Brunswick

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 59 employers in East Brunswick, NJ · 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 Gold Medal -NY 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DASH Heating & Cooling 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Godwin Plulmbing INC 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Genz-Ryan Plumbing and Heating 15.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lennar New Jersey 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delran 204-213 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-North Jersey 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mold-Rite Plastics Somerset 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central New Jersey 1,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3078 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3078 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aculabs Inc 280 FTE
NAT-TCR CAL010 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hakes Sash & Door, Inc. 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Polk Sawmill, LLC 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1770 Lkq 15.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peoples Linen Service LLC Giffin St 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Touchstone Communities- CSO 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Total Mechanical 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newberry 121 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.