Mechanical contractors · California

Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc.

Gardena, CA · ~50 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc. runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mechanical contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc.: 4.6 TCR = 165% of Mechanical contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc. safety composite

Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc.: 1.9 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2023

Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc.'s TCR rose 6.1 from 1.9 in 2020 to 8.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 165% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #346/594
  • PHOTO Brower Mechanical CA…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brower Mechanical CA LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc. averages 4.6 TCR (165% of the Mechanical contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc. TCR series: 2020=1.9 · 2022=4 · 2023=8 · BLS 2.8

Where Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Mechanical contractors establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #346 safest of 594 Mechanical contractors employers in California.

Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc. (50 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc.
Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc. (50 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Meadows Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Inc. has fewer employees than the Mechanical 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 8.0 2.7 3 0 0
2022 4.0 0.0 2 0 0
2020 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Gardena

5,793 Mechanical contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 223 employers in Gardena, 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 Brower Mechanical CA LLC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR R.H. Lapp & Sons, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buzzell Plumbing Heating and AC Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilmette, IL 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jack Bros., Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE M Three Ranches, LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penterman Farming Company 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trefethen Farming, LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 602 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-030 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR GARDENA HUB (CAGAR) 809 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGAR - GARDENA HUB 794 FTE
NAT-TCR 077-SOCORRO/HORIZON 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mansfield, Oh Hauling Operations 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TPS / Custodial Dept. at LANL 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Missouri Valley Plant 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mitsui Kinzoku Catalysts America Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bradway Trucking 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toshiba Business Solutions - Cleveland 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rosecastle at Delaney Creek 50 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.