Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company

Chelmsford, MA · ~91 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company: 3.6 TCR = 164% of Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company safety composite

Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company: 3.6 → 172.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 172.0 TCR · DART/TCR 28.66× in 2024

Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company's TCR rose 168.4 from 3.6 in 2023 to 172.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 28.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · Chelmsford, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 164% of ind

  • DART 103.2 DART
  • RANK #14/33
  • PHOTO 2304 North Dollar Road
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2304 North Dollar Road (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company averages 3.6 TCR (164% of the Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company TCR series: 2023=3.6 · 2024=172 · BLS 2.2

Where Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company falls in its industry

853 Valves, plumbing and heating, establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 33 Valves, plumbing and heating, employers in Massachusetts.

Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company (91 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company
Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company (91 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Hydroserve, LLC dba Gustavo Preston Company has more employees than the Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant w 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 172.0 103.2 4 1 0
2023 3.6 2.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · MA · Chelmsford

853 Valves, plumbing and heating, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 66 employers in Chelmsford, MA · 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 2304 North Dollar Road 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hajoca 484 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2121 N Columbia Blvd 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kahului HI 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Weston Nurseries 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wise Construction 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Boston Construction 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSI NE 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHELMSFORD (MACHE) 1,879 FTE
CITY-NEAR MACHE - CHELMSFORD 1,867 FTE
CITY-NEAR ZOLL Medical 1,585 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brooks Automation US, LLC. 839 FTE
NAT-TCR Columbus Community Hospital 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sorenson Engineering, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Roberds Converting Co, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Collins Hilton 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Waterton Healthcare and Rehabilitation 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prescott's Inc 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Defining Wellness Centers LLC 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Spraying Technologies, Inc 91 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.