Air system balancing and testing · Maryland

Metro Test & Balance, Inc.

Capitol Heights, MD · ~136 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metro Test & Balance, Inc. runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Air system balancing and testing workplace, earning a grade B.

Metro Test & Balance, Inc.: 1.9 TCR = 66% of Air system balancing and testing BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro Test & Balance, Inc. safety composite

Metro Test & Balance, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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 Test & Balance, Inc.: 1.4 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2018

Metro Test & Balance, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 1.4 in 2017 to 2.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Capitol Heights, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 66% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #43/121
  • PHOTO Duo Plumbing & Heati…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Duo Plumbing & Heating Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metro Test & Balance, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metro Test & Balance, Inc. averages 1.9 TCR (66% of the Air system balancing and testing BLS benchmark).

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

Metro Test & Balance, Inc. TCR series: 2017=1.4 · 2018=2.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Metro Test & Balance, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Air system balancing and testi establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 121 Air system balancing and testi employers in Maryland.

Metro Test & Balance, Inc. (136 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Test & Balance, Inc.
Metro Test & Balance, Inc. (136 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Metro Test & Balance, Inc. has more employees than the Air system balancing and testing 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
2018 2.3 1.5 3 0 0
2017 1.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · MD · Capitol Heights

5,793 Air system balancing and testing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 64 employers in Capitol Heights, MD · 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 Duo Plumbing & Heating Corp 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ahern Appleton (NE) Office 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Temp Right Service Inc 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Granite State Plumbing & Heating 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nichols Contracting Inc 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worcester Eisenbrandt 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAIN GCC- E. Monument Street 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darling Ingredients - Linkwood 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR 237482-WASHINGTON NDC 656 FTE
CITY-NEAR WASHINGTON NDC_1434471 637 FTE
CITY-NEAR 237481-SO MARYLAND MD P&DC 444 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN MARYLAND_1441071 370 FTE
NAT-TCR Emco Wheaton Retail Corp. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0346 - Hialeah, Fl 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HBSHSENC20 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Oldcastle OPI - Raleigh 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE South Service Center 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE MS - Virginia Beach - VA - 5OCVA 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nashville (Tnlve) 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carteret (Njcrt) 136 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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