Air system balancing and testing · Wisconsin

Hovland's Inc.

Chippewa Falls, WI · ~38 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hovland's Inc. runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Air system balancing and testing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hovland's Inc.: 5.3 TCR = 190% of Air system balancing and testing BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hovland's Inc. safety composite

Hovland's Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Hovland's Inc.: 2.8 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2024

Hovland's Inc.'s TCR rose 2.8 from 2.8 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Chippewa Falls, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 190% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #92/154
  • PHOTO BM9
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BM9 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hovland's Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hovland's Inc. averages 5.3 TCR (190% of the Air system balancing and testing BLS benchmark).

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

Hovland's Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=11.8 · 2020=2.8 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Hovland's Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Air system balancing and testi establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #92 safest of 154 Air system balancing and testi employers in Wisconsin.

Hovland's Inc. (38 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Hovland's Inc.
Hovland's Inc. (38 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Hovland's Inc. has fewer employees than the Air system balancing and testing 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 5.6 2.8 2 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2022 6.1 6.1 2 0 0
2020 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2019 11.8 3.0 4 0 0
2018 5.3 0.0 2 0 0
2016 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · WI · Chippewa Falls

5,793 Air system balancing and testing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 112 employers in Chippewa Falls, WI · 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 BM9 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR RRSC Jacksonville 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Climate Pros Brooklyn Park 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&I Contractors - Fort Myers Office 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE JG Development 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Boson Company 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Builders, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE A Chappa Construction 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR TTM Technologies Chippewa Falls 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5373 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR River Country Co-op 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR TTM Technologies 457 FTE
NAT-TCR RusCorr, LLC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1218 - Indiana 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Schaendorf Custom Farming 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Krey Distributing Company 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE MacAllister Rental Lansing 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE McClain's Supermarket, INC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Graphic Trends, Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accudynamics 38 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.