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

LH Gault & Son Inc

Westport, CT · ~163 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LH Gault & Son Inc runs at 419% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade F.

LH Gault & Son Inc: 14.2 TCR = 419% of Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LH Gault & Son Inc safety composite

LH Gault & Son Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2020→2021

LH Gault & Son Inc injury rate improved

LH Gault & Son Inc's TCR fell 2.6 from 15.5 in 2020 to 13.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=15.5 · 2021=13.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Westport, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.2 · 419% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #20/21
  • PHOTO Sail Energy dba Murr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sail Energy dba Murray Heutz Oil and Propane LME 001 (0.1 TCR gap)

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LH Gault & Son Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LH Gault & Son Inc averages 14.2 TCR (419% 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

LH Gault & Son Inc TCR series: 2020=15.5 · 2021=13 · BLS 3.4

Where LH Gault & Son Inc falls in its industry

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

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 21 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) deale employers in Connecticut.

LH Gault & Son Inc (163 employees, TCR 14.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate LH Gault & Son Inc
LH Gault & Son Inc (163 employees, TCR 14.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

LH Gault & Son Inc has more employees than the Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2021 13.0 6.1 19 0 0
2020 15.5 9.2 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · CT · Westport

366 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 33 employers in Westport, 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 Sail Energy dba Murray Heutz Oil and Propane LME 001 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Pride Coop-Main Office 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGas - Devore, CA 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Ag Cooperative - Office 13.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greenwood Industries, Inc. 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheffield Pharmaceuticals, LLC - New London CT 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Simoniz USA, Inc. - Bolton 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE MB Aerospace East Granby 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westport Public Schools 939 FTE
CITY-NEAR Town of Westport 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terex - Westport 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10355 Westport (WO) 203 FTE
NAT-TCR Performance Maryland - 0640 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland Mgmt - RC5 Delaware 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Suburban Emergency Medical Services 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR West Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center 14.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE South Lewis SH OPCO, LLC 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Via Satellite Inc 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raven Mechanical, LP 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metro Walls Inc 163 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: 2021, 2020. 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.