Plumbing and heating contractors · Indiana

Home Comfort Experts

Mishawaka, IN · ~170 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Home Comfort Experts runs at 363% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Home Comfort Experts: 10.2 TCR = 363% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Home Comfort Experts safety composite

Home Comfort Experts scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Home Comfort Experts: 2.1 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2023

Home Comfort Experts's TCR rose 10.6 from 2.1 in 2021 to 12.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Mishawaka, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 363% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #119/130
  • PHOTO Jackson & Sons Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jackson & Sons Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Home Comfort Experts in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Home Comfort Experts averages 10.2 TCR (363% 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

Home Comfort Experts TCR series: 2021=2.1 · 2022=15.6 · 2023=12.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Home Comfort Experts falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #119 safest of 130 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Indiana.

Home Comfort Experts (170 employees, TCR 10.2) 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 Home Comfort Experts
Home Comfort Experts (170 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Home Comfort Experts 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
2023 12.7 7.5 22 0 0
2022 15.6 4.4 23 2 0
2021 2.1 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IN · Mishawaka

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 185 employers in Mishawaka, IN · 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 Jackson & Sons Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NBLY Co Ops WA SPV LLC d/b/a Mr Rooter Plumbing of Seattle 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iron Oak Plumbing, Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Climate Design 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Contracting & Services Inc. 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interior Specialties, Inc. 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medallion Plastics 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Niagara LaSalle Corporation 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Mishawaka 1,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR AM General, LLC 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR LCI - 039 392 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2678 381 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilkesboro Fresh Plant 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Oxnard Healthcare & Wellness Centre 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Protecto Wrap Delaware Plant 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nddev - Devil'S Lake 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE North America : La Cantina 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4223-M3200 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tektronix, Inc (13) 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berry Global Films - Montgomery, AL 170 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. 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.