Plumbing and heating contractors · Michigan

Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc.

East Lansing, MI · ~76 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc. runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc.: 4.5 TCR = 161% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc. safety composite

Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc.: 2.3 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.94× in 2019

Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc.'s TCR rose 6.4 from 2.3 in 2016 to 8.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · East Lansing, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 161% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #98/153
  • PHOTO United Mechanical, I…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Mechanical, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc. averages 4.5 TCR (161% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=8.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #98 safest of 153 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Michigan.

Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc. (76 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc.
Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc. (76 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, Inc. has more employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors 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
2019 8.7 8.7 6 0 0
2018 3.7 0.0 2 0 0
2017 3.3 1.6 2 0 0
2016 2.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · MI · East Lansing

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 35 employers in East Lansing, MI · 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 United Mechanical, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RRSC Charlotte 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR A&W Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fluresh Grand Rapids 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Operation Grow, LLC 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Energy Developments 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benton Harbor Service Center 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michigan State University 24,146 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of East Lansing, Michigan 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR GU5 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR 052 - East Lansing 292 FTE
NAT-TCR Glen Ridge Nursing Care Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR KLS Dymatize 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlinville Rehabilitation and Health Care Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Baton Rouge - 1680 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hospital Couriers Florida (East) 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Lakes Home Health OH 2 46-3945906 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Alabama/Georgia District : SVC-Birmingham AL-USA 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Indiana District : SVC-Indianapolis IN-USA 76 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.