Plumbing and heating contractors · Maine

Houle's

Waterville, ME · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houle's runs at 414% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Houle's: 11.6 TCR = 414% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houle's safety composite

Houle's scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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 11.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Houle's: 6.5 → 15.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2024

Houle's's TCR rose 9.0 from 6.5 in 2021 to 15.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Waterville, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 414% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #22/27
  • PHOTO RAHN HOME SERVICES
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RAHN HOME SERVICES (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houle's in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houle's averages 11.6 TCR (414% 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

Houle's TCR series: 2021=6.5 · 2022=12.4 · 2023=11.9 · 2024=15.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Houle's falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 27 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Maine.

Houle's (34 employees, TCR 11.6) 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 Houle's
Houle's (34 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Houle's has fewer 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
2024 15.5 6.2 5 0 0
2023 11.9 6.0 4 0 0
2022 12.4 9.3 4 0 0
2021 6.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · ME · Waterville

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 54 employers in Waterville, ME · 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 RAHN HOME SERVICES 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Service Minds LLC DBA Mister Sparky Ben Franklin Plumbing One Hour Air Bradenton 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blacker Green INC 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Langford & Low, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ray Labbe & Sons Inc 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hancock Plant 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colby College 1,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huhtamaki Waterville 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR MaineGeneral Medical Center - Thayer Campus 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2013 399 FTE
NAT-TCR MAIN GCC- E. Monument Street 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TCH San Antonio 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CEDI San Jose 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Commercial Metal Forming - California 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stinger Harley Davidson 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amvac Marsing 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Garden 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden Norwich Location 34 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. 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.