Plumbing and heating contractors · Ohio

Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc.

Lorain, OH · ~48 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc. runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc.: 3.3 TCR = 116% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc. safety composite

Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc.: 2.1 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.4 from 2.1 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Lorain, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 116% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #174/300
  • PHOTO BKG Company, Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BKG Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc. averages 3.3 TCR (116% 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

Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=10.7 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #174 safest of 300 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Ohio.

Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc. (48 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc.
Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc. (48 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Lucas Plumbing & Heating, Inc. has fewer employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors median and a lower 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 4.4 0.0 2 0 0
2021 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 10.7 2.7 4 0 0
2019 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · OH · Lorain

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 85 employers in Lorain, OH · 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 BKG Company, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Climate Pros Daytona 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Location - 001 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR McElroy's Inc 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ohio Heavy Equipment Leasing, LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butler Rural Electric Cooperative 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Dayton West 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Bronco Services, Inc 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Regional Medical Center 1,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Regional Medical Center 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain Family Health Center & Surgery Center 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain FHC Surgery 412 FTE
NAT-TCR IOS- Tampa 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Conair LLC - Central Building Glendale 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Grunwald Mechanical Contractors & Engineers 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Velocity Rail Solutions 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mount Materials LLC. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE S & S Distributing Sparta 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ameritex Services 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Sweet Home Ministries 48 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.