HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors · Alabama

H. C. Blake Co. Inc.

Huntsville, AL · ~99 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

H. C. Blake Co. Inc. runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

H. C. Blake Co. Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 177% of HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

H. C. Blake Co. Inc. safety composite

H. C. Blake Co. Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

H. C. Blake Co. Inc.: 2.5 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2023

H. C. Blake Co. Inc.'s TCR rose 4.1 from 2.5 in 2020 to 6.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Huntsville, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 177% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #69/85
  • PHOTO TRM Services, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TRM Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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H. C. Blake Co. Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows H. C. Blake Co. Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (177% of the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

H. C. Blake Co. Inc. TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=6.6 · BLS 2.8

Where H. C. Blake Co. Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 85 HVAC (heating, ventilation and employers in Alabama.

H. C. Blake Co. Inc. (99 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 H. C. Blake Co. Inc.
H. C. Blake Co. Inc. (99 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

H. C. Blake Co. Inc. has more employees than the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-condi 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
2023 6.6 6.6 4 0 0
2022 5.6 2.8 4 0 1
2021 5.2 3.7 7 0 0
2020 2.5 0.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · AL · Huntsville

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 454 employers in Huntsville, AL · 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 TRM Services, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5016_11543 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chet's Plumbing & Heating Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Craig Brothers Plumbing & Heating 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sessions Company Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Division Tuscaloosa Snow Mills Complex 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gulf Equipment Corp 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery Container 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR AL004 2,929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dynetics A Leidos Company 2,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leidos - Dynetics 2,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota Motor Mfg of Alabama 1,874 FTE
NAT-TCR Fab Form Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Contractors Electrical Distributors 6550 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tiremaxx, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Omega Motion 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jr Insulation Sales & Service, Inc 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Production Pattern & Foundry CO INC 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Equipment Depot California, Inc. - Whittier 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCN Build Inc 99 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.