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

Metro Services Group - Engineering

Oakland, CA · ~166 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metro Services Group - Engineering runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Metro Services Group - Engineering: 2.3 TCR = 82% of Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro Services Group - Engineering safety composite

Metro Services Group - Engineering scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Metro Services Group - Engineering: 2.1 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2023

Metro Services Group - Engineering's TCR rose 0.4 from 2.1 in 2019 to 2.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Oakland, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 82% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #181/594
  • PHOTO HPS Mechanical Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~166 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HPS Mechanical Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metro Services Group - Engineering in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metro Services Group - Engineering averages 2.3 TCR (82% 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 2026-09-26

Metro Services Group - Engineering TCR series: 2019=2.1 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Metro Services Group - Engineering falls in its industry

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-c establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #181 safest of 594 Heating, ventilation and air-c employers in California.

Metro Services Group - Engineering (166 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Metro Services Group - Engineering
Metro Services Group - Engineering (166 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Metro Services Group - Engineering has more employees than the Heating, ventilation and air-conditionin 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 2.5 5 0 0
2019 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Oakland

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 · 458 employers in Oakland, 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 HPS Mechanical Inc 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bakersfield Branch 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mechanical Services of Central Florida, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR future controls inc 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Couch Distributing Watsonville 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vale Healthcare Center 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panorama Meadows Nursing Center 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gold Arrow Logistics LLC 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakland Unified School District 4,473 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120301 4,408 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620301 3,210 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02620301 2,922 FTE
NAT-TCR Senior Flexonics 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR McGee Pest Control 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Roanoke 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Landmark College* 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE AmeriMex 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE AdventHealth Care Center Orlando East 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCC Structurals Groton 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huron 166 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.