Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors · California

Loves Air Inc

Salida, CA · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Loves Air Inc runs at 838% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Loves Air Inc: 23.4 TCR = 838% of Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Loves Air Inc safety composite

Loves Air Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Loves Air Inc: 21.8 → 25.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 25.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2023

Loves Air Inc's TCR rose 3.3 from 21.8 in 2022 to 25.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Salida, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.4 · 838% of ind

  • DART 16.7 DART
  • RANK #590/594
  • PHOTO Sherlock Heating and…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sherlock Heating and Air (0.2 TCR gap)

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Loves Air Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Loves Air Inc averages 23.4 TCR (838% of the Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Loves Air Inc TCR series: 2022=21.8 · 2023=25.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Loves Air Inc falls in its industry

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-c establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #590 safest of 594 Heating, ventilation and air-c employers in California.

Loves Air Inc (24 employees, TCR 23.4) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Loves Air Inc
Loves Air Inc (24 employees, TCR 23.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Loves Air Inc has fewer employees than the Heating, ventilation and air-conditionin 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 25.1 16.7 6 0 0
2022 21.8 4.4 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Salida

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 16 employers in Salida, CA · 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 Sherlock Heating and Air 23.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR G.F. Bowman 23.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haley's Metal Shop, Inc. 24.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Service Champions - Birch 24.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agro-Jal Farming Enterprises 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTD Farms 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salida 618 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flory Industries 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Drywall 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Environment Control Central Valley 79 FTE
NAT-TCR Amafleet LLC 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mosaic Nevada 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cm Nh 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Emterra Environmental USA -Port Huron 23.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rhode Island State Energy Center 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE RIC Richmond Airport 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE VAI Main Warehouse 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE MercyOne Family Clinic - Regency 24 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.

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