Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling · Connecticut

Kaufman Fuel

Bridgeport, CT · ~34 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kaufman Fuel runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade C.

Kaufman Fuel: 3.3 TCR = 98% of Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kaufman Fuel safety composite

Kaufman Fuel scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Kaufman Fuel: 0.0 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.61× in 2023

Kaufman Fuel's TCR rose 8.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 457210 · Bridgeport, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 98% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK P82
  • PHOTO R11 St. Albans, VT
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R11 St. Albans, VT (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kaufman Fuel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kaufman Fuel averages 3.3 TCR (98% of the Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

Kaufman Fuel TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7 · 2018=0 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=8.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Kaufman Fuel falls in its industry

71 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) deale establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kaufman Fuel (34 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kaufman Fuel
Kaufman Fuel (34 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Kaufman Fuel has more employees than the Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2023 8.7 8.7 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.3 3.7 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

457210 · CT · Bridgeport

71 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 150 employers in Bridgeport, CT · 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 R11 St. Albans, VT 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR EDPO LLC dba EXPO Propane 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCC Propane, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metro Fuel 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Herb Holden Trucking, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Waterbury Freight 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mattern Construction Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE City Of Meriden Public Works 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bridgeport Hospital 3,332 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Vincent's Medical Center - Bridgeport Campus 2,340 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST VINCENTS MEDICAL CENTER - BRIDGEPORT 2,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-CTBRI1 2,079 FTE
NAT-TCR Litchfield Building Center 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR La Porte City Specialty Care 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stratasys (SMACS) 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellevue Ne Plant 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Platinum Electrical Services, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dickey Manufacturing Co 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yummy.com SL 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ellerd 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.