Commercial Refrigeration/HVAC · Nebraska

Nelson Refrigeration

La Vista, NE · ~44 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson Refrigeration runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Commercial Refrigeration/HVAC workplace, earning a grade B.

Nelson Refrigeration: 1.6 TCR = 74% of Commercial Refrigeration/HVAC BLS 2.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Refrigeration safety composite

Nelson Refrigeration scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Nelson Refrigeration held a steady TCR band

Nelson Refrigeration's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=3.6 · 2019=2.6 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · La Vista, NE AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/38
  • PHOTO STS Operating - Gran…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STS Operating - Grand Prairie (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelson Refrigeration in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson Refrigeration averages 1.6 TCR (74% of the Commercial Refrigeration/HVAC BLS benchmark).

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

Nelson Refrigeration TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.6 · 2019=2.6 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Nelson Refrigeration falls in its industry

2,560 Commercial Refrigeration/HVAC establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 38 Commercial Refrigeration/HVAC employers in Nebraska.

Nelson Refrigeration (44 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Nelson Refrigeration
Nelson Refrigeration (44 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Nelson Refrigeration has fewer employees than the Commercial Refrigeration/HVAC median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · NE · La Vista

2,560 Commercial Refrigeration/HVAC employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 37 employers in La Vista, NE · 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 STS Operating - Grand Prairie 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park East Sales, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MacAllister Machinery Richmond 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Compression Technologies and Services : SVC-Cincinnati OH-USA 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pillen Family Farms 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Iowa Missouri 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE DEG Enterprises Inc. 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Republic National Distributing Company 3 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR MCL Construction 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1237 - LA VISTA NE WHSE 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR SalonCentric Inc. - La Vista Distribution 157 FTE
NAT-TCR Aerostar Sulphur Springs 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR James G Staat Tuckpointing Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR G6-West 125th Showroom 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SRG Global Coatings, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ridout - Rogers 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Center for Athletic Medicine 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Springs of Vernon Hills 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casim - Simi Valley 44 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: 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.