Plumbing and heating contractors · Massachusetts

Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc

Lawrnence, MA · ~362 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc: 3.0 TCR = 106% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc safety composite

Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc: 2.4 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc's TCR rose 1.4 from 2.4 in 2022 to 3.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Lawrnence, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 106% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #65/140
  • PHOTO Ewing-Doherty Mechan…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~362 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ewing-Doherty Mechanical, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc averages 3.0 TCR (106% 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

Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc TCR series: 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 140 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Massachusetts.

Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc (362 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc
Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc (362 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works Inc has more employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors 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 3.8 1.4 17 0 0
2023 2.6 1.2 11 0 0
2022 2.4 1.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · MA · Lawrnence

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 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 Ewing-Doherty Mechanical, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR J & J Air Conditioning, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR A.A. Duckett. Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Plumbing and Heating 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Novanta Inc. 362 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgewater/Norwood 362 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Chelmsford (1553) 362 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jill Acquisition LLC - Headquarters 362 FTE
NAT-TCR Ryerson, Marshalltown 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CMC Rebar Fresno 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Muscle Shoals 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ivy Park at Simi Valley 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Buckingham 362 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cook Inc. - Ellettsville North 362 FTE
NAT-SIZE CF Gray Court 362 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 169 362 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. 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.