Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors · Arizona

Howard Air

Phoenix, AZ · ~69 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard Air runs at 449% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Howard Air: 12.6 TCR = 449% of Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard Air safety composite

Howard Air scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Howard Air: 12.3 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Howard Air's TCR rose 0.5 from 12.3 in 2016 to 12.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Phoenix, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 449% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #117/131
  • PHOTO Braden Plumbing Inc
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Braden Plumbing Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howard Air in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard Air averages 12.6 TCR (449% of the Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Howard Air TCR series: 2016=12.3 · 2018=12.3 · 2019=9.8 · 2023=15.9 · 2024=12.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Howard Air falls in its industry

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-c establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #117 safest of 131 Heating, ventilation and air-c employers in Arizona.

Howard Air (69 employees, TCR 12.6) 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 Howard Air
Howard Air (69 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Howard Air has more employees than the Heating, ventilation and air-conditionin 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 12.7 0.0 10 0 0
2023 15.9 1.8 9 0 0
2019 9.8 9.8 7 0 0
2018 12.3 1.5 8 0 0
2016 12.3 6.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · AZ · Phoenix

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 2,630 employers in Phoenix, AZ · 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 Braden Plumbing Inc 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swan Heating and Air - LOVELAND 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Heating & Air 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR JM Mechanical 12.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Griffin Ranches, Inc. 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE TONOPAH PLANT 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodyear Service Center 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Desert Vista Concrete, LLC 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maricopa County 15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Children's Hospital 7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Company 6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030500 6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR 012 Sheriff Office 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CHEFSTORE Santa Rosa 576 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Idgrn - Grangeville Center 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TNT Concrete Supply 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gemini Bakery Equipment Company 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mathews Associates Inc 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bigane Paving Co. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Sacramento 69 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, 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.