Plumbing and heating contractors · New York

L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc.

Plattsburgh, NY · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc. runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc.: 5.1 TCR = 181% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc. safety composite

L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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)
F 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.2

2022→2023

L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc. injury rate improved

L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 10.2 from 10.2 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=10.2 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 181% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #199/297
  • PHOTO Coil Building
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coil Building (0.0 TCR gap)

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L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc. averages 5.1 TCR (181% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

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

L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc. TCR series: 2022=10.2 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.8

Where L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #199 safest of 297 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in New York.

L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc.
L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

L.H. LaPlante Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 10.2 5.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · NY · Plattsburgh

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 96 employers in Plattsburgh, 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 Coil Building 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Refrigeration & Air, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oaktree Consulting LLC 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Climate Pros San Antonio 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE JOHNSON POTATO FARMS LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beds & Borders, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE J. Minns Farms LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE H. F. Corwin & Son, Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center 2,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schluter Systems, LP 801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinton County Chapter NYSARC 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mold-Rite Plastics LLC 509 FTE
NAT-TCR Intech P/M Stainless Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR US Wire & Cable 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Don Hattan Chevrolet 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR United Rolls Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5304 Gerstein Bldg 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lea Power Partners, LLC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 040-NBH-ROANOKE 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glacier State Moving and Storage, Inc. 20 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.