Plumbing and heating contractors · Illinois

Helm Mechanical

Freeport, IL · ~842 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Helm Mechanical runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Helm Mechanical: 1.1 TCR = 40% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Helm Mechanical safety composite

Helm Mechanical scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2020→2024

Helm Mechanical injury rate improved

Helm Mechanical's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.7 in 2020 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.7 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Freeport, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #61/230
  • PHOTO Brinkman Plumbing Co…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~842 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brinkman Plumbing Contractors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Helm Mechanical in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Helm Mechanical averages 1.1 TCR (40% 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

Helm Mechanical TCR series: 2020=1.7 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Helm Mechanical falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 230 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Illinois.

Helm Mechanical (842 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Helm Mechanical
Helm Mechanical (842 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Helm Mechanical 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 0.9 0.4 9 0 0
2023 1.4 0.5 13 0 0
2022 0.8 0.2 7 0 0
2021 0.9 0.4 7 0 0
2020 1.7 0.5 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IL · Freeport

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 74 employers in Freeport, IL · 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 Brinkman Plumbing Contractors, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morrison Construction Company 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central States Automatic Sprinklers, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR COMFORT SYSTEMS USA SOUTH CENTRAL 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nascote- Enterprise Ave 841 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2073-SW-20730056-FO 841 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITC 841 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glenview Community School District 34611110 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR FHN - Memorial Hospital 1,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR FHN 1,057 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell 630 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mechanical Incorporated 579 FTE
NAT-TCR Proyecto Cdbg R3 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR High End Systems-ETC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR RL Hudson and Company 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Katoen Natie DIT 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Community Healthlink 842 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint Francis Hospital Muskogee 842 FTE
NAT-SIZE NWTL 842 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2964-H0001 842 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. 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.