HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors · New York

HSES - Queens

Queens, NY · ~76 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HSES - Queens runs at 349% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

HSES - Queens: 9.8 TCR = 349% of HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HSES - Queens safety composite

HSES - Queens scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

HSES - Queens: 7.2 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2024

HSES - Queens's TCR rose 5.1 from 7.2 in 2023 to 12.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Queens, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 349% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #279/297
  • PHOTO Thorsen's-Norquist, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thorsen's-Norquist, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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HSES - Queens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HSES - Queens averages 9.8 TCR (349% of the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

HSES - Queens TCR series: 2023=7.2 · 2024=12.3 · BLS 2.8

Where HSES - Queens falls in its industry

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #279 safest of 297 HVAC (heating, ventilation and employers in New York.

HSES - Queens (76 employees, TCR 9.8) 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 HSES - Queens
HSES - Queens (76 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

HSES - Queens has more employees than the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-condi 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 12.3 11.1 10 0 0
2023 7.2 3.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · NY · Queens

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 54 employers in Queens, NY · 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 Thorsen's-Norquist, Inc. 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Enterprises Inc 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Production Plus Plumbing, Inc., Camarillo 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DeHart Plumbing, Heating & Air, Inc. 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brightfarms Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE POTSDAM SERVICE CENTER-NY99 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bennett Contracting Inc 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3841_7298 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Skanska USA Civil Inc. 5,513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Resorts World Casino NYC 1,079 FTE
CITY-NEAR Residential Transition Support Program (RTS) 507 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardinal Health 110, LLC (dba Kinray) 481 FTE
NAT-TCR Brown and White, Inc. 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vermeer - Commerce City 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Thorsen's-Norquist, Inc. 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Maine Veterans' Homes 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Danbury Hudson 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Futures Unlimited, Inc. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0534 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0283 76 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.