Lessors of residential buildings and dwellings · New York

Gowanus Houses

Brooklyn, NY · ~42 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gowanus Houses runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lessors of residential buildings and dwellings workplace, earning a grade F.

Gowanus Houses: 3.3 TCR = 235% of Lessors of residential buildings and dwellings BLS 1.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gowanus Houses safety composite

Gowanus Houses scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−2.4

2019→2024

Gowanus Houses injury rate improved

Gowanus Houses's TCR fell 2.4 from 5.0 in 2019 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.0 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 531110 · Brooklyn, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.3 · 235% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #123/364
  • PHOTO Solow Building Compa…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Solow Building Company - 525 E. 72nd Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gowanus Houses in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gowanus Houses averages 3.3 TCR (235% of the Lessors of residential buildings and dwellings BLS benchmark).

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

Gowanus Houses TCR series: 2019=5 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Gowanus Houses falls in its industry

1,100 Lessors of residential buildin establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #123 safest of 364 Lessors of residential buildin employers in New York.

Gowanus Houses (42 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gowanus Houses
Gowanus Houses (42 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Gowanus Houses has fewer employees than the Lessors of residential buildings and dwe median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.3 4.8 3 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2019 5.0 5.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

531110 · NY · Brooklyn

1,100 Lessors of residential buildings and dwellings employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 941 employers in Brooklyn, NY · 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 Solow Building Company - 525 E. 72nd Street 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AVE Florham Park 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-Ohio Development Corporation 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ghertner & Company 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE W D Henry & Sons Inc 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreher Sunrise Farms LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Genex Cooperative - Ithaca 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE IA Construction Management Inc. 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR EDI - Brooklyn 946 9,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR S & A Unified Home Care, Inc. 7,782 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maimonides Medical Center 6,641 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn 5,690 FTE
NAT-TCR Elizabeth Novolex Plant 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1742 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AAW - South Windsor 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wide Open Utility Services 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Everett WA Yard 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merit Electric Inc 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Idaho Falls ID Yard 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5825 - Richmond 42 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. 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.