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

Gowan

Houston, TX · ~429 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gowan runs at 5% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Gowan: 0.1 TCR = 5% of Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gowan safety composite

Gowan scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

Gowan held a steady TCR band

Gowan's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.2 in 2016 to 0.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2024=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 5% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #6/408
  • PHOTO MLN Company
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~429 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MLN Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gowan in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gowan averages 0.1 TCR (5% 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

Gowan TCR series: 2016=0.2 · 2018=0 · 2024=0.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Gowan falls in its industry

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-c establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 408 Heating, ventilation and air-c employers in Texas.

Gowan (429 employees, TCR 0.1) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gowan
Gowan (429 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Gowan has more employees than the Heating, ventilation and air-conditionin median and a lower 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 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.2 0.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · TX · Houston

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 MLN Company 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rachke Piping and Mechanical, Inc. 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR S&Z Sheetmetal, Inc. 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RRSC Home Office 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Williamson-Dickie Fort Worth Service Center I 429 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gerdau Midlothian 429 FTE
STATE-SIZE Epiroc Drilling Solutions LLC 429 FTE
STATE-SIZE At Home Stores #900 429 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Guy Roofing 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mane Inc. Development Center 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR American Piping Inspection Inc. 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Seco Tools, LLC 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Raytheon Company 429 FTE
NAT-SIZE NIBCO Stuarts Draft 429 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arkansas Plant 1 429 FTE
NAT-SIZE WesTech Engineering, LLC 429 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, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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