Central cooling equipment and piping installation · Ohio

OBR Cooling Towers, Inc.

Northwood, OH · ~198 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

OBR Cooling Towers, Inc. runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Central cooling equipment and piping installation workplace, earning a grade A.

OBR Cooling Towers, Inc.: 0.5 TCR = 19% of Central cooling equipment and piping installation BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

OBR Cooling Towers, Inc. safety composite

OBR Cooling Towers, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2020→2024

OBR Cooling Towers, Inc. injury rate improved

OBR Cooling Towers, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.4 from 0.8 in 2020 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 0.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.8 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Northwood, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/300
  • PHOTO MechOne, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MechOne, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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OBR Cooling Towers, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows OBR Cooling Towers, Inc. averages 0.5 TCR (19% of the Central cooling equipment and piping installation BLS benchmark).

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

OBR Cooling Towers, Inc. TCR series: 2020=0.8 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 2.8

Where OBR Cooling Towers, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Central cooling equipment and establishments

Safer than 96% 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 #12 safest of 300 Central cooling equipment and employers in Ohio.

OBR Cooling Towers, Inc. (198 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 OBR Cooling Towers, Inc.
OBR Cooling Towers, Inc. (198 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

OBR Cooling Towers, Inc. has more employees than the Central cooling equipment and piping ins 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
2024 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2021 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · OH · Northwood

5,793 Central cooling equipment and piping installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 46 employers in Northwood, 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 MechOne, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryan & Associates 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA NJ Totowa 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indianapolis, IN HVAC 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CUPERTINO ELECTRIC, INC. - OHIO OPERATIONS 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Limbach - Ohio 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE CertainTeed - Avery 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amsted Rail Company 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norplas Industries 1,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckeye Broadband 685 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient Northwood Ohio 504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient LLC 447 FTE
NAT-TCR BETA Technologies, Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR JC Custom Welding & Electric, Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rifle 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hidalgo 10151 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Darragh Company 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Cathedral City 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABB Inc 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sovereign Pharmaceuticals 198 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.